Re: [PATCH] vlc: rework qt PACKAGECONFIG

[Paul Barker <paul@betafive.co.uk>]

On 23/04/2019 12:30, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:08 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>>>> Perhaps we should have qt5 as a distro feature instead?
>>> Isn't that a different naming for the same thing not working properly
>>> if you don't have meta-qt5 in layers?
>>
>> Isn't this a reason for moving vlc out of meta-openembedded?
>> Or alternatively moving qt5 to meta-openembedded.
>>
>>> Andreas
>>
>> cu
>> Adrian
> This discussion turns into the same direction as seen before on other occasions:
> 
> My priority is building images where things work out of the box and it
> seems this expectation is not common here. There are several default
> configurations around reducing things down to death to save build time
> and make yocto script happy. I disagree completely but won't discuss
> further. So I will
> 
> * send V3 of this patch not enabling qt5 if meta-qt5 is in layers
> * add a bbappend to my meta-mortsgna because that's what distro layers are for
> 
> Andreas
> 

The issue here is the different 'out of the box' situations Yocto needs 
to support. Some of the boards I've deployed images on have 16MB flash 
for the rootfs (with a greatly reduced write speed to the volume due to 
hardware bugs), others currently have a 16GB SD card in them.

Distro layers are the right place for making cut off decisions on the 
minimum you'll support. A distro config that produces 'out of the box' 
working images for a subset of the boards Yocto Project supports is 
definitely a good thing to have.

Thanks,

-- 
Paul Barker
Managing Director & Principal Engineer
Beta Five Ltd