[OE-core] [oe] RFC: meta-oe appends and overlayed recipes

[Mark Hatle]

On 2/12/13 1:32 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com
> <mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>      > * meta-oe/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.8.4.bbappend
>      > * meta-oe/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded_4.8.4.bbappend
>      > These two add MySQL and PostgreSQL support to Qt and Qt/Embedded. I see this
>      > as a distro policy decision; these should move to the layers for whichever
>      > distros want this. FWIW, this is particularly egregious if you've already
>      > built Qt, then add meta-oe and find Qt is being unexpectedly rebuilt.
>
>     MySQL and PostgreSQL are not in oe-core so it cannot be replaced with
>     simple PACKAGECONFIG option in oe-core recipe, but I also prefer to
>     share such .bbappend somewhere instead of every distribution reinventing
>     the wheel when trying to enable something as simple as db in qt.
>
>
> I don't see any reason the oe-core recipe couldn't provide the packageconfig
> options, even missing the dependencies. They are valid package configuration
> options, so they should exist in PACKAGECONFIG. If a distro wants to enable one
> of them, however, they'd better include the layers that provide the deps :)

RPM and Smart integrations both have configuration options that are invalid for 
most configurations or sometimes need additional software provided via a layer. 
  I think this is acceptable, as long as the configuration selects the proper 
DEPENDS/RDEPENDS to ensure the items work properly in the end.

--Mark

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