[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] bitbake.conf: make OVERRIDES match what people expect

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 16:15 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 16:07 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > It was added to poky with the intent of doing what "_local" would have
> > done before it was broken.
> > 
> > I think its a little safer than using "local" as the override keyword,
> > I'm open to opinion on whether it should be kept but it probably has
> > uses.
> 
> Ah, I see.  I must admit that I wouldn't have guessed that from the
> name.
> 
> Maybe we should just delete both _local and _forcevariable from the
> default OVERRIDES on the basis that nothing in the metadata (as
> distributed) uses either of them.  Anybody who wants to make use of them
> from local.conf or whereever can always add them back to OVERRIDES in
> the same place.

I'm ok with that, it can also be done by the distro...

Cheers,

Richard