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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Thursday 29 November 2012 06:58:02 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> >   before i forgot all of this, i lashed together this wiki page for my
> > own benefit so i'd have some examples to show students:
> >
> > http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/OE_package_groups
> >
> > it's admittedly in rough form and could use some polishing but it will
> > do for now.  feedback?  errors?
>
> You're describing those things defined by PACKAGE_GROUP_* as package
> groups, which I would strongly advise against. I know the naming of
> PACKAGE_GROUP_* suggests that the two are part of the same thing but
> they really aren't. Most of this page apart from section 5 is
> actually talking about IMAGE_FEATURES and should be reworded as such
> if you want to reduce confusion rather than increasing it.

  ok, i will work on that later today.  i do remember your earlier
email warning about a bad choice of names, so i'll review that.

rday

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