[oe] What is task-base?

[Koen Kooi]

Op ma, 16-10-2006 te 01:02 +0300, schreef Paul Sokolovsky:

>    If it can be made so clean, why do we have so tangled configs for
> many machines, at least for PocketPC-based?

Historical reason, and we'd welcome a cleanup

>  Do we need more strict
> policy of what goes into machine configs and about the order of
> variables? 

Yes :)

> For example, I doubt it's good idea to have IMAGE_FSTYPES
> in machine configs - how that can be machine's property? 

Some bootloaders can be quite demanding, like the one for the spitz
machine only likes tar.gz, not tar.bz2. It should be overridable,
though.

regards,

Koen