On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:57 AM Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 17:42, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This still sneaks in pieces of rpm into distros where rpm is not needed
>> so better would be to retool dnf to not demand rpm support in libsolv and
>> break the dependency chain. Opkg is usually sought for small systems and
>> last thing we want is unneeded dependencies
>>
>> I would rather use the OE configuration powers as such but I am not
>> opposed to such a solution
>>
>
> You can always set these things (rpm disabling in libsolv, blacklisting
> libdnf/dnf) in your distro configuration, but I would like less complexity
> and special-casing in poky, not more, for the pieces that I maintain at
> least.
>

Btw it’s being proposed for Oe-core not poky and in Oe core rpm is not
default backend but opkg is
Moreover it is being done in a way where poky default are being taken into
account

I really fail to understand your line of arguments
Here I am sorry, there seems to be no technical arguments for alternatives
but for convenience

I certainly can this goes unsaid and it just takes distro one step away
from Oe-core


> Alex
>