[OE-core] Bitbake distro packages: kill them with fire

[Koen Kooi]

Op 29 aug. 2012, om 15:27 heeft Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>> These might not be the appropiate lists, but I might reach a few of the culprits. Over the years people have been doing 'apt get install bitbake' or 'make install' to put bitbake into /usr/bin and after a few minutes to get on irc/email/etc to complain that everything is suddenly broken. There are checks for bitbake versions in the metadata, but it can (and will!) still break with due to python path nastiness.
>> 
>> So to every person packaging bitbake for their distro: stop doing that!
>> 
>> If someone has a better suggestion to avoid this problem (more documentation doesn't work), please speak up.
> 
> I certainly agree that documentation doesn't work (for the most part).
> But maybe it wouldn't hurt to put in a small note about this issue in
> the quick start guide(s)? Perhaps in the section where it is telling
> you what packages you need installed before starting, it could include
> a note to make sure to not have bitbake installed from your distro?

The problem I'm facing is that people decide on their own to install it and they are usually the people who don't read docs (or read them, disagree and continue). Furthermore the quickstart is too yocto specific to recommend for general use.