[yocto] rationale for including checkouts in both layers and yocto git repos?

[Burton, Ross]

On 22 July 2014 14:15, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>   i just noticed that, across the two major repos for yocto:
>
> http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layers/
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/
>
> there's a wee bit of duplication in that the second repo above
> duplicates a lot of the meta- layers found in the first location. is
> that deliberate? or can things be more properly placed in a single
> location?

The former - the layer index - is a curated index of every known
layer.  It doesn't contain any layers, and is merely a (searchable,
human-readable, tagged) index.

The later is the list of all git repositories on the official Yocto
Project git server.  It contains layers, kernel forks, applications
and more.

There is no duplication here.

Ross