[oe] {RFC] console-image.bb

[Koen Kooi]

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On 30-01-10 16:37, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 30.01.2010, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Koen Kooi:
>> On 30-01-10 11:35, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>> Today I bumped into console-image and noticed the following:
>>>
>>> IMAGE_INSTALL = "task-base \
>>>             ${ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL} \
>>>             ${SPLASH} \
>>>             ${ZZAPSPLASH} \
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be cleaner to rename ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL to e.g.
>>> DISTRO_EXTRA_INSTALL ?
>>> This under the assumption that console-image is a distro independent
>> recipe.
>>>
>>> Or, in case this is an angstrom specific recipe shouldn't it be
>> better
>>> named angstrom-console-image ?
>>>
>>> your views are appreciated :-)
>>
>> I vote for leaving it as it is, it gives some credit to where it
>> originated from. The image name already has been forcefully renamed to
>> strip out 'angstrom' so lets keep at least this bit of heritage.
> 
> I think the VCS (Git) is a good tool to find out where something like
> this originated from.

It isn't when people copy stuff to overlays, or just blindly copy it
into other files.

The angstrom core developers already have a betting pool on how long it
takes for kaelios and minimal to copy newly committed changes from
angstrom to their distro configs without credit.

regards,

Koen
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