[OE-core] [RFC 1/2] gstreamer: sync packaging with OE .dev

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 12:19 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:09:49AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:20 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > > some text here
> > 
> > It took all my restraint to not just reply with:
> > """
> > NAK
> > 
> > <insert reason for NAK here, I can't be bothered to type it>
> > """
> > 
> > We've been around in a few circles with this. The problem is that if we
> > apply this patch we have no clue which gst-plugin from the good, the bad
> > and the ugly provides something you're after to include in an image.
> > This results in bitbake being pretty clueless about whether a given
> > build will succeed or not. In general I'm not a fan of having
> > non-deterministic builds as they tend to annoy users.
> > 
> > If this position isn't acceptable then we'll probably have to move to a
> > situation where we list which plugins each of the packages builds and
> > drop the dyanmic provides. That is a maintenance pain and I don't take
> > that step lightly but I don't see any other options. I'm open to
> > suggestions though.
> 
> Something like:
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-April/031739.html
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-April/031740.html
> ?

Yes. I'd probably have written separate .inc files to simplify the
script but I'm thinking along those lines. I'm not particularly happy
about it but I don't see many other options.

Cheers,

Richard