[OE-core] Fwd: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] libcap-ng: add package 0.7.7

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Randy MacLeod
<randy.macleod at windriver.com> wrote:
> Parsing time and probably memory used scale ~ linearly with the number
> of recipes, so that's a *bit* of a concern especially since it's
>  > 500 additional recipes or an increase of > 25% for our distro
> but it's not the top issue.
>
>  > there another reason why I wouldn't want to include them all?
>
> As Mark said, it's a business decision.
>
> There are (probably more than linear) engineering costs to
> adding a recipe to a distribution. That's why we were using
> the meta-FOO-subset approach.
>
> Of course, personally I'd like to provide the full set of
> meta-openembedded layers and more! We might be able to support
> all of meta-openembedded at some point but I don't think it's
> the right decision now.

Its fine, and you are free to do whatever you wish to  in your fork.
Its when these policies start to shape up layers, that's when we have
to be vigilant
and thats the point I have been raising.