<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:19 AM, Burton, Ross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com" target="_blank">ross.burton@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 March 2017 at 11:14, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id="m_-1145128975278774339:35" class="m_-1145128975278774339a3s m_-1145128975278774339aXjCH m_-1145128975278774339m15af5ba4e9d18421">so, just to be clear, the simple act of adding that layer to a<br>
project's bblayers.conf file will cause those preferred versions to<br>
be selected, correct?<br>
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is that considered good design? in a perfect world, i've always<br>
believed that you should be able to load up your bblayers.conf file<br>
with as many extraneous layers as you want and (well, with some<br>
exceptions), if you choose not to take advantage of the contents of a<br>
layer, it shouldn't hurt you.</div></blockquote></div><br></span>Yes.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">No.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So where are they supposed to be specified ? Surely not a separate distro .conf ? and most</div><div>certainly not in local.conf ... I've always been unsure of where the right place to specify </div><div>versions like that.</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It's a violation of the layer design rules and should result in the new layer compat tools failing the layer.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></font></span></div>
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