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

[Khem Raj]

> On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:34 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 27 August 2015 23:07:44 Khem Raj 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
> 
> This is significantly easier to use than BBMASK though. (Perhaps that's why you
> don't like it?)

I don’t think its about technical merits of the patch. I understand its pretty well writter.
Its if we want to provide more tools
and ways which can be bad for layer health in general which are besides oe-core.

> 
> I think we need to be realistic here as I said in my most recent reply to the
> other thread - people will do this using whatever mechanism is available
> whether we like it or not. And what are they saying by doing so? They're
> effectively telling us that they can't consume the recipes in the way we are
> currently collecting them together. We know what the proper fix for the problem
> is (increased splitting of large layers such as meta-oe), it may not be easy
> but other than workarounds like this I don't see an alternative.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> --
> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre

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