[OE-core] [RFC] Use libjpeg-turbo in place of libjpeg

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Maxin B. John <maxin.john at intel.com> wrote:
> This patch set provides libjpeg-turbo as a drop-in replacement for libjpeg.
>
> libjpeg-turbo is a fork of the original libjpeg project.Most of the major Linux
> distros (Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE) moved from libjpeg to libjpeg-turbo recently.
> lbjpeg-turbo provides better JPEG compression/decompression(at least 25% faster)
> while maintaining same API/ABI as libjpeg.
>
> Once we reach an agreement on this, based on the decision, we can move the
> libjpeg package to meta-oe for applications which may depend on API version 9.

I support this change, due:

 - agreement with major Linux distros
 - performance improvement

I also think moving libjpeg (API version 9) for meta-oe is fine as
well. I am not aware of any application which requires it, though.

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