[OE-core] curious about why bitbake.conf setting of FILES_${PN}-bin

[Burton, Ross]

On 15 July 2014 16:23, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Blame me for that patch!  Looking back at the commit message from about 2
> years ago I think this got mid-way through a change, with the plan to
> actually remove lib_package completely since all it contained was the
> setting of PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN, therefore having FILES${PN}-bin. Not sure why
> we did not end up completing that.
>
> So another option is to remove the inherits and replace it with
> PACKAGE_BEFORE_PNs, Which would finish off the orignal plan!

Wouldn't that change the packaging by putting all binaries into a
PN-bin package?

Ross