[oe] [PATCH] vlc: rework qt PACKAGECONFIG

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 01:30:37PM +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:08 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > > > Perhaps we should have qt5 as a distro feature instead?
> > > Isn't that a different naming for the same thing not working properly
> > > if you don't have meta-qt5 in layers?
> >
> > Isn't this a reason for moving vlc out of meta-openembedded?
> > Or alternatively moving qt5 to meta-openembedded.
> >
> > > Andreas
> >
> > cu
> > Adrian
> This discussion turns into the same direction as seen before on other occasions:
> 
> My priority is building images where things work out of the box and it
> seems this expectation is not common here. There are several default
> configurations around reducing things down to death to save build time
> and make yocto script happy. I disagree completely but won't discuss
> further.
>...

That's not what I was talking about.

My point is that there is no point in shipping it in meta-openembedded
if it is mostly useless without an additional layer.

This means vlc should be in the same layer as qt5.[1]
Which means one of the two recipes should be moved to a different layer.

> Andreas

cu
Adrian

[1] or vlc should be in a layer depending on meta-qt5

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