[oe] [OE-core] the fate of Vala in OE

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 06/10/2016 01:10 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:

>
> Yes, I realized that :-(
>
> The actual list is smaller, but still important:
> "gcr" -> "vala-native" [style=solid]
> "gcr" -> "vala" [style=solid]
> "libsecret" -> "vala-native" [style=solid]
> "libsecret" -> "vala" [style=solid]
>
> Both of those packages are in OE-core (meta/recipes-gnome)

These packages are libraries, and need vala only for generating vala 
bindings for their library APIs. If there are no users of those 
bindings, then vala dependencies could be easily disabled.

The actual things in oe-core and meta-oe that truly need vala are Rygel 
and vala-terminal.


Alex