[oe] Splitting meta-oe?

[Patrick Ohly]

On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 14:14 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > 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.

The approach used by meta-freescale works with older releases.
BBFILES_DYNAMIC [1] (supported by bitbake 1.36/Yocto 2.4) is a bit more
robust.

[1] https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/140532/

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