Op 4 mei 2012, om 08:32 heeft Martin Jansa het volgende geschreven: > On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 08:13:06AM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: >> >> Op 3 mei 2012, om 13:51 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven: >> >>> On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:39 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>> Op 3 mei 2012, om 13:24 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven: >>>>> The whole point with the qemu emulated machines is that you build them >>>>> and they work for new users easily and efficiently. I don't think >>>>> calling bitbake to build them and force the user into another wait is a >>>>> good usability model to be promoting. >>>> >>>> OE-core should set the right example and teaching people that a global >>>> IMAGE_DEPENDS is OK is not the right example. Especially when it >>>> actually causes breakage, see below. >>>> If people insist that IMAGE_DEPENDS is the one and only way to provide >>>> the runqemu experience then at least put a big comment in the file >>>> saying why it's done and why people shouldn't be copy/pasting it into >>>> their layers. >>>> And an indiciation where the line is drawn would be nice as well, I >>>> can imagine that someone wants to add amazon EC2 support to runqemu >>>> and sends a patch to add the EC2 tools to IMAGE_DEPENDS. >>> >>> I'm happy to see a comment. The line is quite clear, the documentation >>> associated with the qemu images, the quick start guide and other manuals >>> assume we build qemu-native and friends and for usability this is a >>> clear win. The manuals do not document EC2 and it is not something we >>> expect a new user to need to do easily. Running an extra "bitbake xxx" >>> or including an extra configuration file would be perfectly reasonable >>> for those usage scenarios. >>> >>>>> I'm also slightly bemused that in previous discussions you've implied >>>>> build time is less relevant then functionality yet here you're taking >>>>> the opposite stance :). >>>> >>>> I get build *failures* for the qemu machines because I don't have mesa >>>> and sdl installed on the autobuilder. But you are right, I do think >>>> build time is less relevant than functionality. >>> >>> We should also consider setting up PACKAGECONFIG options in the qemu >>> recipe for these things so you can specify to build qemu-native without >>> sdl/gl easily. I appreciate that is going to be pretty nasty >>> implementation wise but I think it would help and in fact if someone >>> files the bug I'll mark it as a P1 for 1.3 since that does help >>> usability a lot. >> >> #2402 and it's already going the WONTFIX way > > #2407 ?
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