[OE-core] [PATCH] x11vnc: move recipe to meta-oe

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-10-16 08:44, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 08:40:10AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> On 2015-10-16 08:25, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote:
>>> x11vnc can be configured with --use-system-libvncserver to use an
>>> external libvncserver which will be added to meta-oe. Since oe-core
>>> should not depend on meta-oe, we move x11vnc there.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu at ni.com>
>>
>> Just curious why not the other way - move libvncserver to OE-core?
>> x11vnc seems like one of the very few [and useful] X based tools that
>> are present in OE-core that it seems like a huge step backwards to
>> move it out.
>
> It was discussed in "[OE-core] [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH v2] meta-oe:
> recipes-graphics: add libvncserver recipe" thread and I agree with
> Otavio that x11vnc doesn't look so fundamental component used by most
> embedded builds to deserver being in the core.

Well, I tend to disagree and I don't think there has really been a
discussion - only one "no" (Otavio) and one "I don't know" (Paul).

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