dev-manual: Edits to "Locate a Base Recipe" section.

Updated the introductory paragraph to be more general about where
a user might locate an existing recipe as a base.

(From yocto-docs rev: d6147d19785824cde29e82aa32916dcec5ae2276)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 0b9bb6b..d9e31ba 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -1170,12 +1170,13 @@
 
             <para>
                 Before writing a recipe from scratch, it is often useful to
-                check whether someone else has written one already.
-                OpenEmbedded is a good place to look as it has a wider scope
-                and range of packages.
-                Because the Yocto Project aims to be compatible with
-                OpenEmbedded, most recipes you find there should work for
-                you.
+                discover whether someone else has already written one that
+                meets (or comes close to meeting) your needs.
+                The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded communities contain
+                and maintain many recipes that might be candidates for what
+                you are doing.
+                You can find a good central index of these recipes in the
+                <ulink url='http://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/layer/meta-oe/'>OpenEmbedded metadata index</ulink>.
             </para>
 
             <para>