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Hi,

Phil Blundell schrieb:
> It's long been my view that we should just add newer ones and leave the
> old ones alone.  There's really no reason to delete old recipes and,
> even if you check for PREFERRED_VERSIONs in the git tree, there is no
> real way to know who else might be relying on the version you are about
> to delete. 

I share this opinion. Since we do not know what people are doing with OE there
is no way to find out if a recipe is used or not. In fact I can imagine a lot of
situations in which you might want to use an older recipe.

Why do we delete old recipes? We do not do this with old software releases.


Greetings

Florian

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