[bitbake-devel] [OE-core] Layer priorities influencing default version selection

[Khem Raj]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
>> Actually, to some extent I consider it a bit of a misfeature that the
>> layer priority is specified by the layer rather than by the user in
>> bblayers.conf, since this makes it harder to vary the stack-up order
>> without local hackery to the layer files.  For example, meta-oe
>> currently sets itself to a higher priority than oe-core, but I've found
>> that it generally seems to suit me better if meta-oe is actually the
>> lower-priority layer.
> 
> Agreed. It also means that the priority knowledge is split between
> layer.conf and bblayers.conf today, as config/class priority is
> determined by order of entries in BBLAYERS, whereas recipe priority is
> determined by layer.conf.


In my opinion the layer priority for all kind of meta data should be consistent and selected using bblayers.conf 


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> Christopher Larson
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