[OE-core] [PATCH][RFC] base.bbclass: Introduce EXTRA_CONF_PACKAGECONFIG variable

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 19:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>> > Was there some agreement about variable name?
>>
>> meta-qt5 5.6 is using this so we need a final decision if it will be
>> merged or not. I am in favor it as I think it is clear enough.
>
> It was an RFC and I still don't get a good feeling about the names
> used.
>
> I suggested:
>
> PACKAGECONFIG_CONFPARAMS
> or
> PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS

I like CONFARGS.

> as it then makes things slightly clearer these things are coming from
> PACKAGECONFIG. We have a namespace which is a bit of a mess and I'd
> prefer to try and improve with new things if we can...
>
> The fact meta-qt5 is already using this is bad, it really shouldn't be.
> We're also very close to the final build of 2.1 right now so this would
> be a very late change :/.

I think it is a safe change but I am fine in postponing it for 2.2. In
this case we need to revert the usage of it in meta-qt5 (which I also
support).

Martin?

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