[oe] [RFC] recipes/images/${distro}

[Graeme Gregory]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:46:47PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 16:56 +0000, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> > NAK on creating extra levels.
> > 
> > Changing the level where recipes are held is not an option do to the way
> > you tell bitbake how to find them.
> > 
> > BBFILES = "${OE}/org.openembedded.dev/recipes/*/*.bb"
> 
> Is that really such a big deal?  We seemed to manage to switch BBFILES
> from /packages/ to /recipes/ without any major casualties, and I would
> have thought that adding an extra level in there would be equally
> straightforward.  Or of course, even better, the distro-specific recipes
> could go in an overlay which the distro config would select.
> 
I have been talking about using overlays for distros at every OE meetup
since kergoth made it easy to do. So I fully support that idea.

Graeme