[oe] [RFC] ANGSTROM_MODE -> SYSTYPE

[Rod Whitby]

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>   Well, SYSTYPE has another aim and idea in its introduction. I hinted
> about that in original mail, now let me make it explicit: the proposal
> is about introduction of the standard OE variable name for distro
> parameter tweaking. Its meaning however completely depends on the
> distro. Some distro needs switch libc's. Some needs to switch WMs.
> Others need to switch many other things, possibly, in combinations.
> Very good. OE recommends a standard general syntax for that - a
> SYSTYPE. Exact format of what goes into SYSTYPE and its semantics is
> up to distro (and users will know about all that by reading distro's
> docs). (Now that we talk about validation, it puts additional
> syntactic constraints on SYSTYPE value, that's why I'm personally not
> keen to start with [rigid] validation from the beginning).

How is this different to the USE flags proposals that have come and gone
in the past?

-- Rod