On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote: > On 2015-10-16 08:44, Martin Jansa wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 08:40:10AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-10-16 08:25, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote: >>>> >>>> x11vnc can be configured with --use-system-libvncserver to use an >>>> external libvncserver which will be added to meta-oe. Since oe-core >>>> should not depend on meta-oe, we move x11vnc there. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ra...@ni.com> >>> >>> >>> Just curious why not the other way - move libvncserver to OE-core? >>> x11vnc seems like one of the very few [and useful] X based tools that >>> are present in OE-core that it seems like a huge step backwards to >>> move it out. >> >> >> It was discussed in "[OE-core] [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH v2] meta-oe: >> recipes-graphics: add libvncserver recipe" thread and I agree with >> Otavio that x11vnc doesn't look so fundamental component used by most >> embedded builds to deserver being in the core. > > Well, I tend to disagree and I don't think there has really been a > discussion - only one "no" (Otavio) and one "I don't know" (Paul).
The recipe being in meta-oe, can be used anyway. It is just out of OE-Core. Anyway, what x11vnc has to provide to a core system? it even requires X11 which a lot of embedded systems are moving away from... -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
