[oe] OEDEM 2009 summary: DISTROs and FEATURES

[Detlef Vollmann]

On 11/11/09 17:36, Phil Blundell wrote:
> e) DISTROs should be encouraged to minimize the number of unbound
> variables which the user is expected to set in local.conf.  As a general
> principle, the tuple of (MACHINE, DISTRO) should be enough to completely
> determine the build environment.  Extra user-frobbable switches will
> undermine the coherence of the DISTRO.
This ('build environment') could be misleading.
I'd say it this way:
  DISTRO defines what to build
  local.conf defines, how to build (directory paths, parallelism, ...)

   Detlef