[OE-core] [RFC v1 0/1] Reorder ${PN} and ${PN}-dev

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 5/21/12 1:42 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>>
>> This RFC is the first pass at reordering the above 2 items in
>> the PACKAGES list. This is in part an out cropping of the bug
>> #2367 (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2367),
>> which show the miss packaged pcap-config file.
>
>
> I've often wondered why the order is the way it is.  If I were to do this
> from scratch, I'd move the ${PN} item to last in the default order.  Have
> you considered this more radical approach, that would then allow all of the
> default splits to occur before the ${PN} processing.  (It might also allow
> the ${PN} to simply be a "/*" instead of more complex rules.)

This would be quite nice, if we could pull it off without breaking
anything horribly.
-- 
Christopher Larson