[OE-core] some simple questions/observations about package groups

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 28 November 2012 15:27:58 Chris Larson wrote:
> Also, to comment on something tangentially related from a different thread,
> technically the PACKAGE_GROUP_ variables were the first to use the term as
> far as I'm aware. *tasks* were then renamed to use that name as well, which
> is where a bunch of the confusion probably got introduced.

I did mention that:

> PACKAGE_GROUP_* actually came first as a way to 
> define items for IMAGE_FEATURES that map to one or more packages, and I'm
> not  sure the name choice was a particularly good one - I wonder if it
> would be worth considering renaming it to something like
> IMAGE_FEATURE_PACKAGES in order to avoid confusion, although obviously
> every rename like this has a cost associated.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre