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

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Mar 4 15:30:21 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:16:48PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 25-02-09 21:21, 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 .
>
> Only positive replies sofar, so when do we want to schedule this commit?  
> My proposal is somewhere in april, since I'm too busy this month with  
> bossaconference and university work to deal with the fallout properly.

Fine with me.  Do I have a vote? :)

> Also, shall we restructure TMPDIR at the same time?

Yes, lets get that RFC out :)  FWIW, I think 'sdk' should be in the same
place as the other target oriented stuff.  Perhaps target/${host}/sdk/

-- 
Tom Rini




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