On Fri, 27 May 2016 08:25:23 +1200 Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2016 22:18:34 Andreas Müller wrote: > > > > Maybe a bit off-topic but layer index should have some mechanism of > > removing rotten layers. > > We've discussed this on-and-off at OE developer meetings for a while > now. FWIW I can remove them manually - actually I just got around to > deleting meta- picosam9 which has been unmaintained for years. > > Part of the problem though is determining what "rotten" actually > means. Additionally, there's an element of leaving things around in > case someone comes to fork/revive them again. We do show a "last > updated" date but it would be good to figure out some other way of > determining and indicating "layer health" - to date I don't think > we've managed to figure out anything practical for that. > > Cheers, > Paul > meta-mmmpi can go, I haven't updated it in over 2 years, SRC_URI links are out-of-date and it almost certainly won't compile against recent releases. Perhaps "last updated" could be used to nudge layer maintainers when a layer looks stale. An automated email could tell them to check in to confirm that the layer is still valid or let you know that it can be removed. Thanks, Paul Barker -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core