Hi Koen, On 27/06/12 15:59, Koen Kooi wrote: > Yocto is NOT a distro.
Is that so? :-), meta-yocto distro.conf: DISTRO = "poky" DISTRO_NAME = "Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0)" DISTRO_VERSION = "1.2" I am well aware that textual meaning is pretty much constructed by the reader, and that authorial intent is an elusive concept, but I am ready to argue that the conventional understanding of the above is that Poky is a build tool, and Yocto is the public name of the distro that you build if you use meta-yocto. To read that as 'Yocto is NOT a distro' I think requires a definite pre-understanding that Yocto is not a distro, which would need to come from some other source (or perhaps it is an axiom of faith; myself, I tend hold firmly to the authority of the source code alone). I shall not deny you the right to hold to such a reading, but I do reserve the right to deconstruct it. :-) > This thread highlights the reason the oe folks have been pushing to get rid > of the 'poky' name completely Perhaps one of the reasons; but then the erasure of Poky would mean that you could no longer say 'Yocto is a NOT a distro', which I suspect would achieve the very opposite of what you seek (and, perhaps more importantly, might cost Dave and Saul a lunch or two). Personally, I think much better solution would be if the distro was simply called Poky v7.0, then we could all say 'Yocto is NOT a distro!' with conviction. Plus Poky is such a lovely name, don't you think? ;-) Tomas _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto