[OE-core] Policy of explicit disabling of package features

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 09:30 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 10:07 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > It seems to me that a better policy would be to always explicitly 
> > disable *all* features that have external dependencies that aren't 
> > listed in DEPENDS. That kind of policy should reduce these 
> > non-determinism issues. Full compliance with such policy may not be 
> > feasible to achieve, since it requires great care to check for new 
> > optional dependencies whenever updating to new upstream versions, but I 
> > hope that at least "pre-emptive" patches that add explicit feature 
> > disabling will be accepted even before anyone has run into actual problems.
> 
> This is the policy, if its not in DEPENDS, it shouldn't be using it.

Ok, excellent! I'll make a patch that adds some --disable-foo options to
pulseaudio.inc that are currently missing.

-- 
Tanu