[oe] Splitting meta-oe

[Enrico]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 January 2012 15:10:18 Martin Jansa wrote:
>> And that DEFAULT_PREFERRENCE should be respected across layers, IIRC if
>> you add newer less-well tested version of some recipe (like I did with
>> libsoup-2.4 in meta-efl) then it's preferred over "stable" version in
>> oe-core even when it has lower D_P -1.
>
> I agree that in its most common usage DEFAULT_PREFERENCE is likely to be more
> valuable independent of the layer priority - we should consider this. The
> usefulness in this context is of course dependent on people actually setting
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1" when they add the new recipe however.

This would be very very useful.

Enrico