[oe] Splitting meta-oe?

[Burton, Ross]

On 21 February 2018 at 14:02, Joe MacDonald <Joe_MacDonald at mentor.com>
wrote:

> Honestly, now that I'm back from my vacation, I think the right thing is
> to add the dependency and then start thinking about a way to specify
> layer dependencies with greater granularity than on a meta-layer basis.
> Like, there's no question meta-networking depends on core.  It's
> nonsense to think of it without that dependency.  But it'd be nice to be
> able to specify a layer dependency that only exists if your project
> includes specific recipes out of that layer.
>
> But that kind of mechanism seems highly prone to breakage and likely to
> be highly contentious even if it was shown to be reliable, so it may not
> get beyond a "that'd be nice" thing for me.
>
> Unless someone else has already implemented it and I'm just not aware of
> how to use it?  :-)
>

meta-freescale (iirc) does this, conditionally adds sub-layers to BBLAYERS
based on what other layers are already enabled.

Ross