[OE-core] RFC: meta-oe appends and overlayed recipes

[Anders Darander]

* Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> [130211 18:50]:

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> ...
> > * meta-oe/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free_4.8.4.bbappend
> > * meta-oe/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-embedded_4.8.4.bbappend
> > These two add MySQL and PostgreSQL support to Qt and Qt/Embedded. I see this
> > as a distro policy decision; these should move to the layers for whichever
> > distros want this. FWIW, this is particularly egregious if you've already
> > built Qt, then add meta-oe and find Qt is being unexpectedly rebuilt.

> Yes; I think I agree also because *most* people won't use these
> backends so better to handle this in the specific
> layers/distros/whatever needs it.

Definitely in favour of this.

That would simplify my own bbappends a lot, by letting me remove quite a
few oe_filter_out's...

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB