[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] transfig-native: remove, nothing depends on it

[Khem Raj]

On Sep 16, 2013, at 2:30 AM, "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On 16 September 2013 10:15, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 16 September 2013 09:58, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a specify reason that we need to remove it ? transfig
>>> provides fig2dev which is used for building the documentation,
>>> for example, gstreamer and libtheora may use fig2dev.
>> 
>> Considering nothing depends on it, clearly not in stock oe-core.
>> Presumably you have some patches to enable the documentation builds
>> and add the missing dependencies?
> 
> It also appears that GStreamer (at least gstreamer itself, HEAD of
> master and 0.10) doesn't actually use fig files for the documentation,
> just PNG.
> 
> If we're talking about a large number of packages then I'd agree, but
> if we're saying that oe-core should have imake and transfig-native so
> that if you patch libtheora to build documentation it has diagrams,
> then I'm not sure that's a suitable trade-off.

agreed.

> 
> Ross
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