[yocto] Support of meta-kde for Poky

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 27 March 2012 11:07:55 Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> 2012/3/26 Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>:
> > On Monday 26 March 2012 14:55:40 Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> >> meta-kde has no mailing list, so I'm looking for a list to host the
> >> discussion, any suggestions?
> > 
> > Probably just the oe-devel list - if the volume of commits gets too high
> > then we can look at splitting off a separate one.
> 
> Do I need an official statement, and from whom can I get it in case?

I don't think any is needed (at least I don't think anyone asked for any of 
the other layers).

> My assumption is that the initial request, that started this
> discussion, was made with the idea in mind not to include any
> "overhead" from meta-oe.
>
> Too bad it isn't possible to include only a subset of recipes from a layer..
> But it just looks like layers don't work like that.

That's right, the layer is supposed to be used as a unit; which means those 
units are supposed to be kept reasonably small and focused where possible. 
meta-oe is the exception here, but we should continue to try to improve it.

> > As an aside it would be interesting to know why KDE requires additional
> > gif support from giflib when gif loading is already built into Qt (and we
> > do enable it in our Qt recipes).
> 
> The KDE gifloader code is from 2004.
> It looks like this was a possible solution and it worked, so they kept it.

Fair enough.

> But since it is KHTML depending on giflib, KDE could replace it with
> Webkit in the "future" (this is really old news).

Right, I won't be holding my breath on that one ;)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre