[oe] beagleboard-demo-image, and the evil that is "gnome-games"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Martin Jansa wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:47:06AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   it seems counter-productive to allow a single games package to put
> > the brakes on an entire build.
>
> Maybe you want to build with -k?
>
> If there is some build problem in games package, then it should be
> fixed, not silenced by whole task removal.

  i've reported the breakage related to gnome-games before:

http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg02124.html

note in that posting that philip balister appears to confirm the
problem, and there's a reference to someone else who is working with
an update that might solve the problem.

  that was a *month* ago, and things are still broken.  if there's a
fix, then it should be applied.  if there isn't, then the reference to
gnome-games should be removed.  allowing a single broken package
that's been broken for over a month to be the single obstacle to a
successful build would seem to be entirely counter-productive.

rday
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