[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] default-distrovars.inc, task-core-boot.bb: Create distro overridable varibales

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> Op 18 mei 2011, om 19:08 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:40 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> Problem I have is, I dont want udev in RDEPENDS which is added by
>>> task-core-boot
>>> and task-core-boot is added to DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS through
>>> default-distrovars.inc -> defaultsetup.conf -> bitbake.conf
>>>
>>> and my distro adds DISTRO_EXTRA_RDEPENDS to its RDEPENDS
>>> as I think the variable is meant for distro's to define some extra
>>> stuff if needed.
>>>
>>> How should I solve this problem ?
>>
>> Well, what I did in micro-base-image was simply to not use
>> task-core-boot at all.  But in your case I was thinking that you could
>> overlay that recipe with from your distro's layer and make it do
>> whatever you wanted.
>
> The fact that we have layers does not mean we need to follow the silo mentality you seem to prefer. If task-base in oe-core stops being usefull we should fix it, now play around in our own little sandboxes.
>
If task-base is getting less useful, removing it altogether (I found
the  reasons mentioned by Phil convincing)  should be at least
considered as an alternative.

I am not sure why we should keep task-base as something generic --all
distro's have their own specific requirements and configurations, even
for task-base, so why not move this functionality into the distro and
out of oe-core?

I never quite saw what task-base gained us on a netto basis, but I
think I am biased towards small tweaked images, so these are just my
two cents.

Regards,
-- 
Leon