Create a powerful rootfs/image creation tool
I believe that many of the complaints about openembedded, particularly those about it being "too general" or too difficult to coerce into generating teeny root filesystems are rooted in our image creation process.
Using recipes and packages for root filesystem creation is very limited. With a standalone powerful image building tool, you could give the user an interface to pick and choose individual files rather than our package based setup, or they could very easily tell it to take this or that external file and drop it into place, or install this package but without these certain files, etc.
AdminChris Larson
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AdminChris Larson
(Admin, OpenEmbedded)
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Narcissus is a great tool, but it hides the build process. What I'm talking about would be a native interface, and more flexible, and wouldn't abstract away the build process. The image recipes would go away, in favor of template configurations passed to the image builder. Narcissus shouldn't go away, there's a definite need for it, but it can live alongside a tool like I propose here.
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philip.balister
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How would this relate to narcissus?
