[oe] [RFC] I would like to merge holger/enterprise into oe.dev

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Sat Nov 1 14:49:12 UTC 2008


On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Holger Freyther <zecke at selfish.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> In the GStreamer world there are the terms like "Good", "Bad" and "Ugly" to
> qualify plugins. While "Good" and "Bad" only refer to the quality of the code,
> "Ugly" is referring to the abuse of technology.
>
> Sometimes people find them in a situation that they do not want to
> distribute/provide "Ugly" plugins, e.g for political reasons (like Fedora and
> mp3), sometimes for other reasons...
>
> In my holger/enterprise branch I have added an enterprise.conf which is
> masking (BBMASK) the ugly packages and is changing the bb to not depend on
> ugly packages in. I would like to merge this.

Speaking as someone who's used OE in companies before, this sounds
like a very Good Thing™.
-- 
Chris Larson
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clarson at mvista dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
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Software Engineer
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