[OE-core] [PATCH 15/28] packagegroup-base: remove openswan from packagegroup-base-ipsec

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 03 September 2012 18:25:35 Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 3 sep. 2012, om 12:54 heeft Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> 
het volgende geschreven:
> > On Monday 03 September 2012 11:50:01 Phil Blundell wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:37 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >>> On Monday 03 September 2012 11:35:24 Phil Blundell wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 11:30 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >>>>> openswan was only ever provided in unmaintained form in meta-demoapps
> >>>>> which has been removed, so we never really provided it in OE-Core.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Isn't packagegroup-base-ipsec rather useless without it?
> >>> 
> >>> If you ignore the RRECOMMENDS line that follows, yes.
> >> 
> >> Is there a meaningful use-case where installing kernel-module-ipsec
> >> without any user-space support is a desirable thing to do?  And, even if
> >> the answer is yes, is it really valuable to have a
> >> packagegroup-base-ipsec which just recommends a single other package
> >> without doing anything else?
> > 
> > The idea is supposed to be that just having "ipsec" in DISTRO_FEATURES
> > brings in what we can to support IPsec, assuming your image uses
> > packagegroup-base that is.
> 
> Isn't that an IMAGE_FEATURE?

It has been implemented within DISTRO_FEATURES since long ago in the OE-
Classic days. We could move it to IMAGE_FEATURES or simply have it as a 
package group on its own, however the minute we have something that requires 
enabling/disabling IPsec at configure time it will break. A cursory google 
search suggests this is not an unlikely situation although not one we actually 
face right now.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre