[oe] Documentation problems

Philip Balister philip at balister.org
Mon Nov 28 13:36:30 UTC 2011


On 11/28/2011 08:33 AM, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 11/28/2011 06:16 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:07, Richard Purdie <
>> richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Rather than fork off the Yocto docs for OE's needs, it would be nice to
>>> see if there was a way we could share the documentation.
>>>
>>
>> I fully agree with that.
>>
>> The work would be much easier if all that could be shared.
>>
>> AFAIK, using docbook it is possible to use macros to expand for branding
>> and also conditional to output text so this could be done in a single
>> repository.
>>
> 
> We need to be really careful how all the pieces get branded. There is
> way too much confusion already, without referring people to the "Yocto
> Instructions" to use OE-core + layers.

Just to be really clear .....

Also, not I am not opposed to a unified documentation set, just that it
is clear to people what things are called.

Philip




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