[oe] [RFC] policy about nonworking recipes

[Christopher Larson]

Philip Balister wrote:
> Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 21-05-09 22:20, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
>>
>>> I think that, eventually, "bitbake world" should be working again and
>>> usable as a test case.
>>
>> A laudable goal...
>>
>>> I suggest to use COMPATIBLE_MACHINE because I
>>> assume that to be the more common issue.
>>
>> NAK, we have a perfectly good EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1" for that, 
>> which is already used in lots (well, 23) recipes and classes.
>
> Good point, after thinking about the COMPATIBLE_MACHINE idea, I was 
> thinking it would also need to be paired with COMPATIBLE_DISTRO also. 
> Using the existing EXCLUDE_WORLD would be simpler solution in my mind.
>
> I'm still interested in what other people think. 

Sounds like EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD + DEFAULT_PREFERENCE would be all that's 
necessary to get nonworking-style functionality without moving the 
recipes, indeed.  At least this way we ensure the recipes stay 
*parsable*, which is more than we can say for the current bits :)

-Chris