[OE-core] [RFC] Rename meta-openembedded to openembedded-extras

akuster808 akuster808 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 20:37:44 UTC 2018



On 02/21/2018 11:55 PM, Andrea Adami wrote:
> All,
> it seems there is some consensus about reordering/cleaning the
> "OpenEmbedded layers".
>
> I think that before starting any cleaning *inside* we should finally
> clean up the confusion about meta-oe meta-openembedded
> openembedded-layers, etc..
>
> I think it would be advisable to rename the repository from
> meta-openembedded to openembedded-extras, matching the
> openembedded-core naming schema.
Renaming an existing repo will cause more damage than what benefit one
thinks it may solve. 

I think openembededd-core is incorrect. it should have been
meta-openbedded-core or meta-core.

- armin
>
> Regards
> Andrea
>
>
> P.S.
> One layer of this repo would be the (in)famous meta-oe.
> I can't imagine right now a definition for it: it contains old
> versions of oe-core recipes, expunged recipes, tools and libraries
> needed by other layers (i.e. tslib), etc. etc.
> This one will need a separate thread.





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