[oe] [RFC] renaming packages/ to recipes/

[Henning Heinold]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:21:32PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep trying to teach people the difference between recipes (what's in  
> OE) and packages (what you install on the target) and keep getting  
> reactions like "ok, but why is the dir called packages?", which are  
> completely valid.
>
> Proposal:
>
> mv packages recipes ; git commit .
>
> While it would make setting up OE more intuitive, it does mean that  
> people have to adjust local.conf and distro people need to update their  
> installation instructions.
>
> I have some other intrusive proposals about shuffling things around in  
> TMP a bit (and out of TMP as well), standardizing on source locations  
> for source_distribute and sourcepkg, etc, but let's start with this easy  
> one.
>
> The main motivation for all this is to make the next stable branch  
> easier to grasp for newbies than the current OE structure.
>
> regards,
>
> Koen

+1 from me.

Bye Henning