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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 9 apr. 2013, om 21:06 heeft Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> 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".

Ah, I thought you were after runtime resolving of that, sorry.