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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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?

I do want people using full layers and offer tools to make fancy
combinations does not enhance our quality in long term.

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