[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 1/4] meta-oe: fixup LAYERDEPENDS to include meta-python

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:39 AM Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org <openembedded-
> > devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of Khem Raj
> > Sent: den 22 februari 2019 19:19
> > To: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org>
> > Cc: openembeded-devel <openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org>
> > Subject: Re: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 1/4] meta-oe: fixup LAYERDEPENDS to
> > include meta-python
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 9:30 AM Nicolas Dechesne
> > <nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > meta-oe depends on meta-python, for mongodb recipe, since
> > > 5cf9a144ad16 (mongodb: Upgrade to 4.0.1 release)
> > >
> >
> > The dependency was always there, but I wonder if there is a better
> > place for mongodb than meta-oe
>
> Can we please revert this? Making meta-oe depend on meta-python
> is not the right thing to do. Either move mongodb to another layer
> that already depends on meta-python or where it is fine to do so,
> or move python-cheetah to meta-oe. The latter seems like the easier
> choice.

I am fine with dropping mongodb from meta-oe and revert this patch
and the problem I see is that now meta-oe depends on meta-python
and meta-python depends on meta-oe, which is not good. Although
having meta-python as a dependency for meta-oe is fine or vice-versa
but no loops.

>
> //Peter
>