[OE-core] [PATCH 01/38] *-basic: rename to *-standardlinux

Paul Eggleton paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Tue Feb 25 14:23:33 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 25 February 2014 13:13:24 Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 24 feb. 2014, om 17:38 heeft Paul Eggleton 
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:
> > On Monday 30 December 2013 12:59:26 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >> On Monday 30 December 2013 09:35:18 Robert Yang wrote:
> >>> I'm afraid that the standardlinux maybe a little confused with
> >>> linuxstdbase, bu I don't have any better idea about it.
> >> 
> >> You could be right. I've thought for a long time about renaming this and
> >> haven't been able to come up with anything better. On the other hand, in
> >> our current configuration we are actually using the basic/standardlinux
> >> packagegroup as part of our LSB images; although that might not be the
> >> right thing to continue doing - LSB probably ought to be independent.
> >> 
> >> FWIW, let's consider this particular patch as RFC, maybe someone else has
> >> a
> >> better idea of what to name it. I am very much convinced that "basic" is
> >> not the right name though.
> > 
> > So, has anyone got any better ideas for the name of core-image-basic and
> > packagegroup-core-basic?
> > 
> > The idea is that these are meant to contain things that you might have on
> > a
> > more traditional or full-featured Linux system. Somehow
> > "-traditionallinux"
> > doesn't really work either.
> 
> Who does it need to contain 'linux'? OE isn't linux specfic and neither are
> the package groups.

I'm fully open to alternatives, that's why I brought this up again...

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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