[Openembedded-architecture] layer.conf and layerindex change proposal

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 16:15 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> In addition, many of the layers I work with have a clear set of
> required layers
> (LAYERDEPENDS), but also have 'recommended' layers...  So I'd love to
> see a
> LAYERRECOMMENDS as well.

> For this one, in bitbake, we could add the LAYERRECOMMENDS to the
> priority
> sorting code -- but if the layer is not included it's not an error or
> warning.

I don't understand this. Why would the fact a layer recommends another
layer change priority sorting code? I don't think the dependency
variable does that?

I get the feeling I'm missing something from this proposal...

Cheers,

Richard
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