[oe] blacklist.bbclass

[Phil Blundell]

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 21:33 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2011/3/18 Dr. Michael Lauer <mickey at vanille-media.de>:
> > Salut,
> >
> > the blacklisting of packages as found in angstrom.bbclass
> > is pretty helpful and would be beneficial to all kinds
> > of distribution configurations in OE. Would there be
> > a strong objection of renaming this to blacklist.bbclass?
> >
> > Copying, of course, is also a possibility, but
> > in my opinion it would only be the second best choice.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > :M:
> 
> If blacklisting a certain package for all distro's is there then still
> a need to keep those blacklisted packages ????

The class that Mickey is talking about is just the mechanism to allow
blacklisting.  It doesn't actually contain a list of blacklisted
packages; I think that typically goes in DISTRO.conf for distros that
use it.

However, if we do want to rename it to something more global (which I
agree seems like a good idea) then the contents would need a bit of
tweaking since both the variables that it looks at, and the messages
that it outputs, make reference to Angstrom specifically.

p.