[OE-core] [oe] qt4 moves out of oe-core - to meta-qt4, or to meta-oe?

[Burton, Ross]

On 12 November 2015 at 18:59, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > There is already enough meta-oe bloat moved from oe-core:
> > >
> > >
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-November/112665.html
> > >
> > > WARN: qt-mobility-embedded: qt-mobility-embedded rdepends on glib-2.0,
> but
> > > it isn't a build dependency?
> >
> > If increasing bloat is a problem, why do recipes in meta-oe need to be
> > maintained indefinitely? Old cruft can be dropped from meta-oe, just as
> it
> > is dropped from oe-core. Just ask the public if it's ok, set a timeframe,
> > and do it.
> >
> > qt-mobility in particular has been dead for several years, and doesn't
> > even have official upstream tarballs anymore. Why spend time fixing it?
>
> That's why there is increasing number of PNBLACKLISTs with each release.
>

The recipes were removed from oe-core as they're dead upstream, and
basically as a courtesy moved to meta-oe so anyone still using dead
software can still build it.  If they're just bitrotting and literally
nobody is using the recipes then they should be removed: meta-oe isn't a
historical archive that you're expected to maintain for the next decade.

Ross
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