[OE-core] proposal to move cogl, clutter and related recipes from oe-core to dedicated meta-clutter layer

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/13 3:22 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Well if layers make life harder it invalidates one of points of Yocto
>> which I always liked and depends on heavily - modular design.
>
> One of the key pieces of the oe-core, it must be able to work without any
> additional layers.  It also much be able to be tested without any additional
> layers.
>
> I personally don't have a preference for the clutter and related items on
> where they live... but I do want to make sure that oe-core can standalone as
> a starting point for people to develop devices.  Part of being standalone
> means that it is capable of being tested.

This wouldn't be a regression as it was not used widely for testing.
Clutter would be much more useful for users if it could profit of a
more active users base and avoid 'in-house' solutions and forks so I
only see good points in split it out from OE-Core.

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