[oe] Change ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL to IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL
Marcin Juszkiewicz
openembedded at haerwu.biz
Mon May 12 20:58:40 UTC 2008
Dnia Friday, 9 of May 2008, Koen Kooi napisał:
> Philip Balister wrote:
> > I'd like to change the variable used for the user to add packages to
> > a standard image from ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL to IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL.
> > This is an image property, and not Angstrom specific.
> >
> > Is there anything wrong with this idea?
>
> Yes, since it is intended to put angstrom specific stuff inside the
> image.
If you want to have own images - create them. Otherwise we have people
which builds random images and can not be supported (why does
my 'minimal-image' does not have working touchscreen when I start Abiword
from icon after booting to full X.org with E17?).
> It is there because it got fed up receiving hate-mail everytime
> I edited an image recipe. Since we seem to have a couple of resident
> angstrom-haters nowadays, I vote for leaving it as-is.
I vote against IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL. Let it live as ugly Angstrom hack for
breaking sane images into unsupportable ones.
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