[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 2/2] data_smart.py: implement _remove as a keyword like _append.

[Peter Seebach]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:13:46 +0100
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I read this far.
> 
> This is not going to make any friends. += and =+ behave differently to
> _append with immediate vs. delayed functionality. I think equating -=
> and =- is just going to confuse users even more. So no, I don't think
> we can do this.

I'm fine with dropping that part, I just put it in because it was a
pretty close analogue to +=/=+. It would not be hard to remove that.

> Why does this depend on 1/2 ?

Because I didn't think I could write it without the tracking code to
see what was happening.

-s
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