[OE-core] RFC: FOO_subtract, the logical antidote to FOO_append.
Peter Seebach
peter.seebach at windriver.com
Tue May 15 19:01:10 UTC 2012
There's a few cases where something is a huge list of space-separated
things, and it is desireable to remove one. The example currently
afflicting me is DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_DEFAULT; I want to end up with
the distro features including all but one of the words in it.
It seems to me that a counterpart to _append would make sense. Here
is my basic idea:
FOO_subtract = "..."
means that, when you expand FOO:
1. Fully expand it.
2. Fully expand FOO_subtract.
3. Remove any words in FOO_subtract from FOO.
4. Yield the result.
The rationale is that the semantics of things where we're using _append
seem to be consistently of the form "this is a space-separated set",
and being able to remove things from a set would be Super Handy.
So I'm proposing the semantics for consideration, and if people like
them, I will go try to implement it in my Copious Free Time.
-s
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