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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:14 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I think we have to revert it for now. Its breaking bitbake add-layers
due to circular dependency.

> >
> > //Peter
> >