[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] base: make feature backfilling happen earlier

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:06 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Ross Burton <ross.burton-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> writes:
> 
> > Backfilling DISTRO_FEATURES and MACHINE_FEATURES with _append statements
> > happens too late to use those variables with conditional inherits, like
> > this:
> 
> This causes regressions for setups where DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL uses
> the override mechanism. E.g. I have
> 
> | DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_mydist = "ld-is-gold ${${PROJECT_FEATURES}"
> | DISTRO_FEATURES_INITMAN_mydist = "systemd"
> 
> Before this commit, DISTRO_FEATURES contained 'ld-is-gold' and the
> project features.  Now, project features + ld-is-gold vanished and
> pulseaudio is in again.

I don't think its possible to make everything work :(

The question is therefore how do we want to proceed? I'll take further
proposed patches but I don't know what the best thing to do here is...

Cheers,

Richard