[OE-core] [RFC] Remove vala from oe-core

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Andreas Müller
<schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Otavio Salvador
> <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Alexander Kanavin
>> <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/10/2015 05:29 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>>
>>>>> PACKAGECONFIG alone is not sufficient; to build the bindings properly,
>>>>> the
>>>>> package also needs to inherit vala.bbclass:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/tree/meta/classes/vala.bbclass?h=akanavin/gobject-introspection-experimental
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and this belong to meta-vala (or other). This reduces the core and
>>>> this is something we really should to push for.
>>>
>>>
>>> If this class is moved to meta-vala, how do you make packages in oe-core
>>> inherit it, or otherwise do what it does?
>>
>> bbappend files? :)
>
> What get's solved or better by moving back and forth recipes and adding appends?

I see no real benefit on Vala being into the oe-core; it can be add as
all the other layers we have. This helps to reduce the oe-core size.

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