[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL (V2) 00/35] Updates, Multilib Patches and other fixes

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 9 January 2013 11:42, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 09:33, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
>> Exactly, except that it would be provided by bitbake, and not
>> constructed by each recipe itself - less recipe writing work + you
>> could count on it to always mean same thing.
>
> Everything but the last dot, or the first two components, or what?  For anything GNOMEy you want the first two elements as some packages use nano releases for development snapshots (1.2.3.4).

 Ok, do we have any counter-examples where you'd want, say, three out
of four parts? One out of n? Of course there will always be need to
use variables of their own in some recipes, but I'm after something
that would be usable in most cases.


 - ML