[poky] Native vs not

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 10:26 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 05:10 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
> > I think having some buildhost/native packages (based on distro/version) trusted and assume provided or even
> > installed using the build host package management could be one approach
> > in modern distros I think we could use lot of host packages as is. or
> > may be trust all and keep a list of blacklisted packages for a given
> > distro might be something useful
> 
> I've been thinking about this a bit and at least at the high level there 
> is an argument for making it easy to opt out of a big class of host 
> tools, on a modern distro and trade reprodicibility / reliability for 
> faster initial build times.  And on the flip side, opt out of a bit more 
> of our host tool dependencies.

This is what ASSUME_PROVIDED is there for :)

Cheers,

Richard