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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Burton, Ross wrote:

> 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.

  ah, got it.

rday

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