[OE-core] [PATCH 3/4] distcc: make distccmon-gnome optional and default to off

[Koen Kooi]

Op 15 nov. 2011, om 12:44 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:

> On Tuesday 15 November 2011 08:58:00 Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Let's move this to the TSC and see if we can get this crap removed. There is
>> already an existing ruling that USEFLAGS should be a last resort. I'm tired
>> of yocto-marketing feel good patches making life harder for people actually
>> using oe-core and its output.
> 
> Marketing has nothing to do with it. All I really want is to fix the problem 
> that the build blows up if you try to build any image for any of the qemu* 
> machines with x11 removed from DISTRO_FEATURES.

Isn't a better question "Why are all images for qemu machines forcing distcc to get built?"?

> I think it would have been 
> nice to also be able to avoid having to build gtk+ and everything it depends 
> upon for all such images regardless of whether or not it is really needed, but 
> I can live without making that further cleanup if it's going to cause such an 
> uproar.
> 
> If PACKAGE_CONFIG is not an acceptable solution to this problem I'll accept 
> checking for x11 in DISTRO_FEATURES alone, if that's what it takes to get the 
> real problem fixed.

Or just make a seperate recipe for distccmon-gnome, that would avoid the need of any USEFLAGS. Should be just a matter of require distcc_$PV.bb ; EXTRA_OEOCONF = foo

regards,

Koen