[oe] blacklist.bbclass

Tom Rini tom_rini at mentor.com
Sat Mar 19 22:40:47 UTC 2011


On 03/18/2011 04:09 PM, Graeme Gregory wrote:
> On 18/03/2011 19:24, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> As the author I object to renaming it.
>
> We have played this rename game before and Im still not happy with the
> results of the last time.
>
> I also object on the grounds of the amount of abuse I got from some
> other distro maintainers for implementing this, which is the reason it
> is called angstrom.bbclass.

OK.  Can we change the message so it says ${DISTRO} doesn't support, 
rather than Angstrom doesn't support?

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation




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