[oe] Splitting meta-oe

[Koen Kooi]

Op 1 feb. 2012, om 11:07 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven:

> On Wednesday 25 January 2012 12:48:11 Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> The meta-oe layer [1] is becoming the home for additional recipes that we
>> miss from OE-Classic that don't have another obvious layer to go into, and
>> this is a good thing. However I think that meta-oe is already in a state
>> where quite a few people feel the new structure is not working for them.
>> 
>> As I see it, meta-oe is trying provide the following:
>> 
>> 1) Additional recipes that are not in OE-Core
>> 
>> 2) Additional functionality for OE-Core recipes that we can't enable in OE-
>> Core itself (e.g. enabling postgres support in Qt) - mostly just a
>> side-effect of #1
>> 
>> 3) A place to preserve old versions of recipes that have been removed from
>> OE-Core in favour of newer versions
>> 
>> 4) Newer less-well tested versions of recipes
>> 
>> I think what most people want when they enable meta-oe in their layer
>> configuration is #1, and it's probably OK to get #2 along with it. They do
>> not however expect versions of toolchains, eglibc or other fairly
>> fundamental bits and pieces that might cause their build to fail when
>> everything worked fine just building with OE-Core (#4). Equally I expect
>> there will be some people who want just #3 and nothing else.
>> 
>> I understand there is significant value in providing all of these things, I
>> just think we shouldn't be trying to do them all in one largely indivisible
>> layer. In our new layer structure we should be able to find a way to split
>> the metadata so that people who want any combination can still have what we
>> have in meta-oe today, and yet those who just want one of them don't get
>> unexpected build failures or older/newer versions being built.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> [1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe
> 
> Koen, as the maintainer of meta-oe would you like to comment on this thread?

I'm waiting for FOSDEM and ELC to discuss this face to face.