[meta-intel] [PATCH] meta-intel.inc: Avoid installing thermald on poky-tiny

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 3:33:46 AM NZDT Wold, Saul wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 09:11 +0300, Jussi Laako wrote:
> > On 25.09.2017 10:00, Mikko Ylinen wrote:
> > > On 23/09/17 01:03, Alejandro Hernandez wrote:
> > > > When using DISTRO=poky-tiny we dont need to have thermald
> > > > and also it brings about ~4MB of dependencies.
> > > 
> > > It's conceptually not right to have a distro dependency in the
> > > BSP settings, IMO.
> > > 
> > > If your distro/image does not need something the BSP thinks is
> > > necessary, the distro/image itself should deal with that.
> > 
> > This is problem to a bigger extent too. Many BSPs try to pull in all 
> > kinds of extra things, such as gstreamer plugins, even if the image 
> > being built doesn't need such things.
> > 
> And Distro's don't know what a BSP might pull in, so they can't
> directly _remove or exclude them somehow.

They should - the distro is where you make all of these kinds of decisions, if 
you're creating the distro then you will have some idea of which BSPs you are 
targeting and hence which options you need to turn on/off from that end.

Cheers,
Paul


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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre