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On 18/03/2011 19:24, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
> Salut,
>
> the blacklisting of packages as found in angstrom.bbclass
> is pretty helpful and would be beneficial to all kinds
> of distribution configurations in OE. Would there be
> a strong objection of renaming this to blacklist.bbclass?
>
> Copying, of course, is also a possibility, but
> in my opinion it would only be the second best choice.
>
As the author I object to renaming it.

We have played this rename game before and Im still not happy with the
results of the last time.

I also object on the grounds of the amount of abuse I got from some
other distro maintainers for implementing this, which is the reason it
is called angstrom.bbclass.

Graeme