[oe] python-netifaces in oe?

[Khem Raj]

On Monday, February 24, 2014 12:19:07 PM Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Sunday 23 February 2014 22:26:34 Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Feb 23, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn at oss.bmw-carit.de>
> > wrote:
> > > We provide a recipe for python-netifaces in the meta-ros layer as well. In
> > > fact, a quick search on the OpenEmbedded Layer Index [1] reveals that
> > > meta-ros and meta-openstack both provide a recipe for python-netifaces.
> > > With your use case and recipe, we would have now three recipes. So, I
> > > suggest to unify all three recipes and come up with the best (complete)
> > > recipe from these three versions and add them to the meta-oe layer. We
> > > then can remove the duplicate recipes in the application layers.
> >
> > If these layers have dependency on meta-oe then please add the recipe there
> > and remove from other places.
> 
> There has been some discussion about creating a meta-python layer (within the 
> meta-openembedded repository) for these kinds of recipes. I think the time has 
> come to actually do that, before we add any further python recipes to the 
> general meta-oe layer. Could someone send a patch to create meta-python?

meta-python is good. I always worry about layer being maintained, in fact I have some python
3 extra recipes that I wanted to contribute which dont belong to core.
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