[oe] Task-base is big :(

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On 9/12/07, Detlef Vollmann <dv at vollmann.ch> wrote:
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Is this overlay public? Even if we can't use it directly a summary of
> > what you find unacceptable of the current approach in OE would be useful
> > to see.
> I don't have a full overlay, but here's an example:
> $ cat python-my_2.5.1.bb

> The difference to the original python .bb is the removing of
>  DEPEND: tk
>   This would build a whole X11 system, and I definitely don't want that.
>

Same here, but I guess we are using OE for similar purposes. Using
OpenEmbedded for embedded applications you build a kernel, need a
*few* packages (say 10) and some custom stuff (say 20 packages).

Removing stuff like X or XML dependencies from the bitbake of those
handful of packages allows me to build reasonably quick and especially
the build does not break when any of the redundant packages breaks.

I plan to bring a OE monotone and package mirror and the overlay
online soon. I also have spare hours on a build server that could be
used to build public targets, I would like to dedicate this to
regression testing.

Regards,
-- 
Leon