[oe] Request to revert latest devicekit patch

[John Willis]

Rolf,

Replying to your mail on-list.

As the author of said patch if people want it reverted go ahead. It has my
ACK.

> Koen Kooi wrote:
> > On 24-01-10 12:35, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> >> Can anyone ack the revert please?
> >
> > The commit says:
> >
> > Note: Another (maybe better) fix would be to package up docbook-xsl
> but
> > that is overkill for these two recipes.
> 
> To introduce something new that patch breaks something for somebody
> else
> that was previously working.  I thought it was commonly accepted that
> it's then the author's (and possibly the committer's) responsibility to
> come up with something better to fix this regression.
> 
> > Wouldn't that be a better option than introducing a regression?
> 
> The regression was introduced with the patch.  Not by reverting it.
> 
> A revert gets my ACK if this bothers Holger enough in his workflow.  I
> would suggest Holger and David-John should talk about a time-frame in
> which David-John can cook up a proper patch.  Based on this information
> a decision should be made if a revert is necessary in the meantime or
> not.  I trust Holger's judgment here.
> 
> 
> PS: David-John, the whole discussion is at
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/29524

As I stated in the original patch the correct fix is to sort out the
docbook-xsl packages but that was not something I had any intention at the
time to tackle (limited OE dev time and a seemingly infinite TODO list). I
may be able to look at it in the near future but as for being the best man
for the job, that I am not so sure about.

The sole reason for the patch was to fix a build failure on systems where
the host system docbook-xsl stuff was not available (or desired). 

Reverting the -nonet will reintroduce dependencies on components being
installed on the host system outside OE but if that is fine then go for the
revert. I understood (at the time, this is back in October) that depending
on host items outside oe's -native was a 'very bad thing' (tm) ;). Maybe
worse than requiring an internet connection but I am not the person to judge
that. 

I'll leave it to core OE devs to decide what is the lesser of 2 evils in
this case.

Regards,

John