[oe] RFC: Add DISTRO_FEATURES(xfce) to control meta-xfce

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:23:51PM +0800, Hongxu Jia wrote:
> On 6/28/19 8:58 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:20:36AM +0800, Hongxu Jia wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Currently, I am improving OE to follow Yocto Project Compatible,
> > > One rule of Yocto Project Compatible is when a new layer is added,
> > > it should not affect other layer, but unfortunately, bbappend in
> > > meta-xfce broke the rule.
> > > 
> > > So I suggest to add DISTRO_FEATURES(xfce) as a switch to control,
> > > in short term, we could use it to control bbappend in meta-xfce,
> > > in long term, we could use it to control more xfce specific features
> > > 
> > > (As a alternative way, I also tried to remove bbappend directly,
> > > but I found the existence of bbappend is indeed necessary)
> > blueman upstream defaults to installing the files for thunar-sendto.
> > Andreas, was there any specific reason why you made this conditional
> > instead of keeping it enabled unconditional with only an RSUGGESTS
> > on thunar?
> 
> Currently DISTRO_FEATURES(xfce) is used to control this bbappend,
> 
> if we could merge the bbappend to recipe thunar, I think it is not
> 
> necessary to add DISTRO_FEATURES(xfce) in short term

I just sent
  blueman: Enable thunar support by default but don't rdepend on it
that should also fix this problem.

> > gdmflexiserver looks like a workaround for something that should be
> > fixed properly instead to me.
> > But short-term adding it to the normal lxdm recipe in meta-oe might
> > be an options?
> 
> No need to add extra lxdm, I am working to remove this bbappend,
> 
> and modify xfce4-panel to use lxdm to instead of lightdm directly,
> 
> we do not need this bbappend to provide a fake gdmflexiserver

Thanks, that looks a lot better than what I had in mind.

> //Hongxu

cu
Adrian

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