[oe] [meta-networking, meta-oe][PATCH 0/9] Move networking recipes to meta-networking

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:22:52PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 April 2013 13:30:29 Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Op 16 apr. 2013, om 13:19 heeft Paul Eggleton 
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> het volgende geschreven:
> > > On Tuesday 16 April 2013 13:09:46 Koen Kooi wrote:
> > >> These look good to me, but
> > >> 
> > >>> iw: move to meta-networking and update
> > >> 
> > >> This is receferenced by a packagegroup in meta-oe:
> > >> 	meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-basic.bb:
> > >> ${@base_contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "wifi", "iw wpa-supplicant", "", d)}
> > >> \
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> With the 'meta-oe shall only depend on oe-core' rule,
> > > 
> > > Are you sure nothing in meta-oe depends on anything in other layers within
> > > meta-openembedded already?
> > 
> > I can't say for certain, but Martin and I have been very strict about it in
> > the past. If there are such external dependencies they should be looked at
> > and fixed.
> 
> At some point I don't think this is going to be realistic - what happens if 
> you have something in meta-oe that's too generic to be put elsewhere and yet 
> has a dependency on something in meta-multimedia or meta-networking? It will 
> come up at some point fairly soon.

then it should be in meta-multimedia or meta-networking even when
it's too generic or the required recipe in meta-multimedia or meta-networking 
has to be moved back to meta-oe.

> I can drop the iw patch from this set for the sake of the rest of the patches 
> if you object to moving it, but we do need to do something about this in the 
> near future.
> 
> For now, I did check and at the moment according to "bitbake-layers show-
> cross-depends" (thank you Robert) we have only vlc depending on fluidsynth 
> which is in meta-multimedia, but vlc ought to be moved to meta-multimedia 
> itself anyway.

Ah, my fault I've added fluidsynth because it was autodetected, but
maybe I should have disabled it explicitly or move vlc to meta-multimedia with it.

commit 0d1d39da74e6b73c5b070f551373d21e2a15f98a
Author: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 11 00:54:46 2012 +0100

    vlc: add fluidsynth and alsa-lib to DEPENDS for reproducible builds


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