On 06/24/2013 02:37 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Philip Balister <phi...@balister.org> wrote: >> Showing how Poky (the reference distribution) is built would be a nice >> way to introduce people to building their own custom distributions using >> OpenEmbedded. > > Totally agree, but I would relegate that to a separate effort. The > main problem with diagrams like this is trying to squeeze in too much > information in order to preserve completeness, at the expense of > clarity. It would be more ideal to start with a very simple diagram, > then move on to other diagrams to zoom in on pertinent detail. It is a > delicate balancing act. In this case, I would say to put "how Poky is > built" into the 3rd or 4th diagram in a series. > > I'm glad to see this conversation happening!
I totally agree we drifted way beyond the initial discussion of the figure. The key thought here is understanding how Poky differs from a typical use of oe-core + other layers. Philip _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
