[oe] native preferences

[Tom Rini]

Florian Boor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dr. Michael Lauer schrieb:
>> Of course the preferred way - rather than switching distros - is to fix this obvious bug
>> in the OE metadata.
> 
> yes I see it like this. Switching to a distribution that pins more versions is
> not really what I would call a fix. It is a workaround but should not become the
> default way to deal with such issues in OE.
> What we introduced here is clearly a bug in OE and not the distributions fault.

Except that it's a bitbake issue, not a metadata issue, iirc (which is 
why it's fixed in the 1.10 branch, but not 1.8).

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation