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On Wednesday 29 August 2012 17:59:06 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 29 August 2012 17:53, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
> > Either take the distro stuff out or take the recipes out.
> > Meta-openembedded
> > is supposed to be a shining example of layer correctness.
> 
> I don't particularly want to maintain bbappends in meta-yocto for
> these as I'd prefer to see the recipes (well, contacts and dates, I
> still "maintain" tasks) gone.

The ideal option would be to turn these into PACKAGECONFIG options and then 
they can be set from anyone's distro config as desired (using pn- overrides) - 
no bbappends needed.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre