[oe] blacklist.bbclass

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/3/18 Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org>:
> 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.
>

Ah ok, thanks for the explanation!

Frans