[oe] [PATCH] glib-2.0: remove old glib-2.0-native recipes

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Freitag, den 09.04.2010, 09:51 +0200 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> On 08-04-10 23:20, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> > Having these around can cause some conflict in recipes depending on
> > recent glib-2.0-native, see [1].
> > 
> > What can happen is that, when no preferred versions are set (like in
> > DISTRO=minimal), bitbake picks up an older -native recipe even if a more
> > recent one using the BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" mechanism exists.
> 
> If that's the actual problem, leave the recipes alone and set a
> PREFERRED_VERSION in your distro.

Here we come back to an old disagreement, namely whether the preferences
in OE should have a consistent set of defaults or not.

"Set it in the distro" is a nice catch-all, but I wonder whether hiding
such obvious bugs in the metadata is the right approach with regards to
OE being versatile for new distros.

CHeers,

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