[yocto] <rant>the current yocto FAQ is pretty much valueless</rant>

[Koen Kooi]

Op 27 jun. 2012 om 22:14 heeft Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.yocto at r-finger.com> het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Koen,
> 
> On 27/06/12 15:59, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Yocto is NOT a distro. 
> 
> Is that so? :-), meta-yocto distro.conf:
> 
> DISTRO = "poky"
> DISTRO_NAME = "Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0)"
> DISTRO_VERSION = "1.2"
> 
> I am well aware that textual meaning is pretty much constructed by the
> reader, and that authorial intent is an elusive concept, but I am ready
> to argue that the conventional understanding of the above is that Poky
> is a build tool, and Yocto is the public name of the distro that you
> build if you use meta-yocto. To read that as 'Yocto is NOT a distro' I
> think requires a definite pre-understanding that Yocto is not a distro,
> which would need to come from some other source (or perhaps it is an
> axiom of faith; myself, I tend hold firmly to the authority of the
> source code alone). I shall not deny you the right to hold to such a
> reading, but I do reserve the right to deconstruct it. :-)

It's actually the catchphrase on the official slides: It's not a distro, it builds you one



>  thread highlights the reason the oe folks have been pushing to get rid of the 'poky' name completely
> 
> Perhaps one of the reasons; but then the erasure of Poky would mean that
> you could no longer say 'Yocto is a NOT a distro', which I suspect would
> achieve the very opposite of what you seek (and, perhaps more
> importantly, might cost Dave and Saul a lunch or two). Personally, I
> think much better solution would be if the distro was simply called Poky
> v7.0, then we could all say 'Yocto is NOT a distro!' with conviction.
> Plus Poky is such a lovely name, don't you think? ;-)

I have no problem with poky-the-distro, I have a problem with poky-the-buildsystem. I warned mallum about this confusion years ago, but you know how stubborn he can be :)



> 
> Tomas
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