[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Make pulseaudio a DISTRO_FEATURE

[Khem Raj]

On (27/01/12 10:54), Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 27 January 2012 11:43:50 Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> > just a quick question, couldn't we use a separate recipe for phonon,
> > so if a recipe depends on it we don't have to change distro vars?
> 
> Well, this thread is now about something more fundamental (how to introduce 
> new DISTRO_FEATURES), but we do still need to solve the problem that prompted 
> the wider discussion. It's still possible that someone would want to build 
> phonon without pulseaudio, even if it was split out into a separate recipe, so 
> I'm not sure that addresses the problem.
>  
> > IMHO it would be easier to just depend on libphonon.bb instead of
> > adding a distro var for the one single recipe I'm working on.
> > Just my 0.02 cents.
> 
> Pulseaudio has become an optional dependency for a lot of things. I think it 
> makes sense to make a decision on whether or not to include this on a distro 
> level since if you have it enabled in one place you almost certainly want it 
> enabled everywhere else (and disabled everywhere if it is disabled).
> 
> Now, at the start of this saga there was a question as to whether this should 
> be a DISTRO_FEATURE or PACKAGECONFIG (or both, ugh). Ultimately the result is 
> the same - distro policy controls whether this feature is on or off.

DISTRO_FEATURES are like global use_flags equivalent of gentoo and
PACKAGECONFIG is more like local use_flags. Sometimes DISTRO_FEATURES
will configure particular PACKAGECONFIG settings and sometimes you can
just tweak the PACKAGECONFIG

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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-Khem