[oe] Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of <distro>.conf overrules local.conf setting ?

[Graham Gower]

On 11 August 2010 06:26, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>wrote:
>> What's the point of setting a preferred version at all if you make it a
>> weak assignment?
>> The distro nearly always knows better and if you want to use a different
>> version, sending a patch to change that version for review isn't exactly
>> rocket science.
>
>
> How about having decent usability?  The user asking for something and not
> getting it is completely unintuitive.  If the user doesn't know what they
> want, they won't request a specific version.  If they do request it, they
> should get it, anything else is an OE usability issue.

Precisely. The user shouldn't have to understand the details of
parsing order, weak assignments, etc. in order to write a local.conf
which works for them.

Patch to follow.

-Graham