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

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Thu Mar 5 15:35:01 UTC 2009


Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> writes:

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

[...]

Let's do it step by step. It is much easier and nicer to our users if
they don't have to handle a completely different tree to get theirs work
done.

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