[OE-core] should all class files be inherited by *something*?

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>  poking around the meta/classes/*.bbclass files and one looked a bit
> odd -- scons.bbclass.  i was under the impression that class files
> were supposed represent a *general* kind of functionality so i was
> curious as to what this file represented.
>
>  more to the point, it doesn't look like anything in oe-core inherits
> that class.  so what exactly is its purpose?
>
>  and following up on that, another example of that kind of file is
> oelint.bbclass -- again, i don't see anything in oe-core that inherits
> it.

There will *always* be classes that aren't inherited by anything. Look
at devshell. Some classes will always be opt-in only.
-- 
Christopher Larson