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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> 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).

The recipe being in meta-oe, can be used anyway. It is just out of OE-Core.

Anyway, what x11vnc has to provide to a core system? it even requires
X11 which a lot of embedded systems are moving away from...

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