[oe] Eliminating dependency race-conditions (was Re: [PATCH] net-snmp: disable libnl use)

[Graeme Gregory]

On 17/03/2011 14:43, Esben Haabendal wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 11:18 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>> I am still very much interested in discussing how to move this
>>> technology from OE-lite to OE, but as it impacts all recipe metadata
>>> (build dependencies has to be redefined), OE community at a large
>> really
>>> needs to value the benefits of solving this problem.
>> The benefits of solving the problem are clearly very great, but I
>> don't think OE itself is really in a position to embrace a "big bang"
>> kind of change which would require redefining all the build
>> dependencies.  I think we need to find a technological solution which
>> will work with our current DEPENDS scheme. 
> I know that this seems to be the general consensus in OE, but I do not
> agree with it.  Sometimes architectural work requires working out the
> details on a branch, and then when it is mostly done, do the "big bang"
> which will then not really be that "big" anymore, as most of the issues
> have been resolved.
>
> Is OE really in a position to permantly settle for something suboptimal
> in such a central area?
>
I would suggest a branch of oe-core is the ideal place to do this work.
It can be proved on oe-core then rolled out to meta-oe at a later date.

Graeme