[oe] [doc] defining OpenEmbedded

[Cliff Brake]

On 10/24/07, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Getting started is coming along nicely.

Great!

> In the second case referring to OE as a collection of metadata is
> confusing.  Metadata is data about the data.  OE is actually a
> collection of patches, task lists, and configuration files.  I was
> wondering if it would be more clear to refer to oe as either a ruleset
> or task lists.

The term metadistribution seems to be somewhat accepted:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Metadistribution

In the most basic sense, a bitbake recipe is data about data (the
source that needs built), so I think the term fits. Just my opinion.

Cliff

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