[OE-core] [oe][meta-oe][PATCH 2/4] xterm: add latest version of xterm

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:01:21PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> Op 9 apr. 2013, om 19:46 heeft Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> >> On 9 April 2013 15:21, Marco Cavallini <koansoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> * Recipe taken from oe-classic
> >>> * Required by xinput-calibrator
> >> 
> >> oe-core already ships not one but two terminal emulators, let's not
> >> add another one.  Can we make this configurable in the recipe somehow
> >> and default to use matchbox-terminal (which is in the Sato images)?
> >> 
> >> Long-term, alternatives along the lines of Debian's
> >> x-terminal-emulator is probably something we want.  Then again I'm
> >> still not entirely sure why this is even spawning a terminal in the
> >> first place.
> > 
> > u-a is not enough, we also need VIRTUAL-RUNTIME-x-terminal-emulator for
> > other recipes to RDEPENDS/RSUGGESTS/RRECOMMENDS on if they need some
> > terminal (and don't care which one will be used).
> 
> Isn't this what xdg-utils are for?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how xdg-utils will help
bitbake to find suitable runtime provider for "any-x-terminal-emulator".

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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