On Tue, 2020-03-03 at 22:23 +0100, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > Hello all, > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 6:42 PM Jacob Kroon <jacob.kr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 3/1/20 12:47 AM, Matt Ranostay wrote: > > > Add pixmap to PACKAGECONFIG defaults to allow consumers to > > > render color emojis without distro changes. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Matt Ranostay <matt.ranos...@konsulko.com> > > > --- > > > -PACKAGECONFIG ??= "zlib" > > > +PACKAGECONFIG ??= "zlib pixmap" > > > > > Wouldn't it make sense to keep it off by default and let whoever > > needs it enable it ? > > /Jacob > > > I would agree, and would also vote for opt-in rather than opt-out for > this use-case. > > Do we have a more generic stance on how we select the PACKAGECONFIG > defaults?
It feels like I've seen this come in a few times, I've said no, it keeps coming back, I gave in. Basically the policy is trying to keep things as sensible defaults for the majority of users. Many of our users are concerned about build time, space usage and minimisation of dependencies. These things do change over time as our userbase changes and as the demands and expectations from software changes. In this case its fairly hard to figure out that tweaking this option breaks emojis and libpng isn't such an uncommon or problematic library. Its hard for me as the maintainer of all this to get a decent feeling for how people feel about some changes so its also based a lot on feel, there is only limited patch review a lot of the time. If there is strong demand not to have this, we can revert it. I'd like to see how many people do/don't want it and see a few more opinions on that though. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
