[OE-core] Coordinating inter-layer dependencies

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> So if you have some layer adding
> layerB: PR .= ".b0"
> and other
> layerA: PR .= ".a0"
>
> and PR appends are evaluated in this order, then you will break upgrade
> patch forever if you have to remove layerB for some reason and you
> cannot even fix it by bumping numbers in your layerA unless you rename
> all PR appends as ".c0" right? That's why I prefer to use PRINC.

And if you *remove* a layer you used to use? Will this not result in
it decrementing and breaking the upgrade path in that way? Or does
this persist the way localcount does?
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