[OE-core] RFC: OE-Core task rework

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 15 August 2012 12:17:40 Jack Mitchell wrote:
> > 1) Do we rename "task" to something a little more understandable to the
> > uninitiated, such as "package group"? The word "task" is already used in a
> > much more natural sense within bitbake as a unit of work. Historically I
> > believe we picked up this term from Debian but I'm not aware of
> > significant use by other mainstream distributions.
> 
> Do the 'tasks' do anything other than specify meta-data groups? If they
> don't include any glue or additional processes then I strongly agree
> that the name should be changed.

They don't, no. Usually they are just lists of packages, although sometimes 
there is some very basic logic to conditionally include/exclude some packages 
based on DISTRO_FEATURES, MACHINE_FEATURES, COMBINED_FEATURES etc. or allow 
substitution of default packages with others using variables.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre