[OE-core] setting EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES explicitly in .bb file can screw things up

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Monday 09 July 2012 11:24:27 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > > So IMHO the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES variable in the image should be
> > > merged in the IMAGE_FEATURES above. I don't see the meaning of it.
> >
> >   yup, that was precisely the point i was making.  so given the
> > potential for confusion, what should be the "best practise" here?
> > based on my sketchy understanding, it seems the proper approach would
> > be to let recipe files use IMAGE_FEATURES exclusively, while
> > specifically reserving EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES for the developer's
> > local.conf file, and avoid the current unpleasant mixing.
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me.

  i'll send in a patch that does that, especially since
local.conf.sample specifically instructs the developer to use
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES.   patch coming shortly.

rday

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