[oe] Eliminating dependency race-conditions (was Re: [PATCH] net-snmp: disable libnl use)

[Esben Haabendal]

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 11:18 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> 
> > I am still very much interested in discussing how to move this
> > technology from OE-lite to OE, but as it impacts all recipe metadata
> > (build dependencies has to be redefined), OE community at a large
> really
> > needs to value the benefits of solving this problem.
> 
> The benefits of solving the problem are clearly very great, but I
> don't think OE itself is really in a position to embrace a "big bang"
> kind of change which would require redefining all the build
> dependencies.  I think we need to find a technological solution which
> will work with our current DEPENDS scheme. 

I know that this seems to be the general consensus in OE, but I do not
agree with it.  Sometimes architectural work requires working out the
details on a branch, and then when it is mostly done, do the "big bang"
which will then not really be that "big" anymore, as most of the issues
have been resolved.

Is OE really in a position to permantly settle for something suboptimal
in such a central area?

/Esben