[oe] [oe-commits] org.oe.dev gnuplot: update 4.2.2, add 4.3.0+cvs

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

On Monday 28 January 2008 19:34:59 Koen Kooi wrote:
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> | On Monday 28 January 2008 16:40:22 Graeme Gregory wrote:
> |> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:48:21 +0200
> |>
> |> Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> |>> Hm, but why that file is in .dev branch at all? What was idea of
> |>> removing 2007 .conf and leaving preferred-versions? Doing a grep, it
> |>> is referenced only by angstrom-2007-for-openmoko.inc, so shouldn't it
> |>> be merged there or renamed to make it clear that it relates more to
> |>> openmoko?
> |>
> |> I shall rename it later when I get a chance to indicate only OpenMoko
> |> use it.
> |
> | How about making it generic-preferred-versions.inc hence resurrecting
> | the "generic" distribution until we have the default versions configured
> | enough, so that you can build without setting a DISTRO?
>
> You can't build without setting a distro since among other things,
> SRCREV is broken if you do that.
> Besides not being named 'generic', what are the arguments against making
> angstrom the 'generic' distro in OE? It's the closest thing of showing
> off all features of OE *and* doing it the OE-way.

It's the message it sends. By all means I want to keep the difference between 
OE as a distribution building environment and the actual distributions. If we 
lose this distinction OE becomes OE/Angstrom and people will think OE is just 
about/for one distribution -- which it is not.

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