[OE-core] design question: should layer.conf contain "PREFERRED_VERSION" settings?

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

>
> On 22 March 2017 at 11:14, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>> so, just to be clear, the simple act of adding that layer to a
>> project's bblayers.conf file will cause those preferred versions to
>> be selected, correct?
>>
>>   is that considered good design? in a perfect world, i've always
>> believed that you should be able to load up your bblayers.conf file
>> with as many extraneous layers as you want and (well, with some
>> exceptions), if you choose not to take advantage of the contents of a
>> layer, it shouldn't hurt you.
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> No.
>

So where are they supposed to be specified ? Surely not a separate distro
.conf ? and most
certainly not in local.conf ... I've always been unsure of where the right
place to specify
versions like that.

Bruce


>
> It's a violation of the layer design rules and should result in the new
> layer compat tools failing the layer.
>
> Ross
>
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