[poky] Poky doesn't play nice with meta-oe

[Andrea Galbusera]

Hi! I'm resurrecting this thread because it's becoming somewhat
interesting for me.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2012 08:31:50 Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I wanted to do some experimenting with midori (a webkit based
>> browser that is [arguably] better than web2) in my familiar Poky
>> environment.
>>...
>> * Rebuild core-image-sato
>>    Lots of packages get rebuilt, down to GCC which has been updated
>>    to r27 from r22.  I thought the poky meta "core" was tracking meta-oe
>>    and openembedded-core more closely than this.
>
> I agree, this is not particularly desirable. We've discussed this in the OE
> TSC and the agreement was that the toolchain bits currently in the meta-oe
> layer itself will be moved out to a separate layer.
>
>> Image will boot, but most things are broken, no X, no network, ...
>
> That's not good :(
>
>> It looks like the evil systemd has pervaded meta-oe (which IMO should
>> be at least a DISTRO decision).
>
> I agree, but there are others who think it should be switchable on a per-image
> basis. I don't think it's going to be long before that's impossible however.
>
>> I guess the only way I'll be able to test this in Poky, if at all,
>> will be to only import the midori recipes and its dependencies, which
>> there seem to be many.
>
> That's not an unreasonable approach for now. However we do really want to tidy
> up meta-oe such that it doesn't do surprising things when you enable it.
> Hopefully we will get a chance to make progress on this over the next few
> months.

Before starting to mess up things I'm asking if there is any relevant
improvement on this side? I need a few recipes that are in meta-oe but
not in poky/yocto (python-twisted, gpsd and a few more). Enabling
meta-oe over my current edison environment would be nice to avoid
manually importing those recipes with dependencies. Maybe master
branch and upcoming 1.2 are expected to work better on this side?