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List:       openembedded-devel
Subject:    [oe] Renamed: Generic distro
From:       mickey () vanille-media ! de (Michael 'Mickey' Lauer)
Date:       2008-01-28 19:21:27
Message-ID: 200801282021.27268.mickey () vanille-media ! de
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On Monday 28 January 2008 19:59:42 Philip Balister wrote:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Besides not being named 'generic', what are the arguments against making
> > angstrom the 'generic' distro in OE? It's the closest thing of showing
> > off all features of OE *and* doing it the OE-way.
>
> At the risk of putting words in to Mickey's mouth, my view a generic
> distro is a generic.conf that contains the absolute minimum number of
> lines required to build an image successfully. Maybe we could call it
> minimal distro and remove generic?
>
> Angstrom has features, generic does not.
>
> The key is not to define the generic distro clearly and not let it
> feature creap towards Angstrom. (Kind of like minimal-image trying to
> get less minimal based on peoples viewpoint of what a minimal-image is)

Yes, this is the other major reason to keep generic. Yes, renaming it to 
minimal sounds good to me.

-- 
Dr. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer | IT-Freelancer | http://www.vanille-media.de



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