From 8657f00cfa9af6a88a8593aace5074ef9e35d867 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:31:05 -0600 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual') 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 @@ 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 + OpenEmbedded metadata index. -- cgit v1.1