[oe] Splitting meta-oe

[Philip Balister]

On 01/25/2012 09:47 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 January 2012 09:34:53 Philip Balister wrote:
>> On 01/25/2012 07:48 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> My understanding is the OE-Core toolchains lack the Linaro patches which
>> a extremely useful for people using armv7. So dropping toolchains from
>> meta-oe would be a really bad thing for a large portion of the user base.
> 
> I was suggesting moving these toolchains to a separate layer where those who 
> don't need them aren't tripping over them. Adding such a layer to your 
> configuration is more or less trivial, and once done you would not notice any 
> difference.

We should try and have a face to face meeting with OE developers at ELC
in a few weeks to talk about some of these issues.

Philip