[OE-core] [PATCH v2 1/1] classes/whitelist: add class to allow whitelisting recipes from a layer

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 28 August 2015 10:55:41 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:07 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Aug 27, 2015, at 5:36 AM, Paul Eggleton
> >> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Allow restricting recipes brought from a layer to a specified list. This
> >> is similar in operation to blacklist.bbclass, but instead specifies a
> >> per-layer whitelist of recipes (matched by PN or BPN) that are able to
> >> be built from the layer - anything else is skipped. This is potentially
> >> useful where you want to bring in a select set of recipes from a larger
> >> layer e.g. meta-oe.
> > 
> > For the record, I am not in favor of such feature in OE, Distros can still
> > use BBMASK if they wish to
>
> I am also not in favor of the merge of this.

Do you have a practical alternative that has less downsides?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre