From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q14rJ-0005eh-6R for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:42:57 +0100 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1Q14pZ-0002oi-3o from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:41:09 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-04.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.41]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:41:08 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.15] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-04.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.97.41) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.270.1; Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:41:08 -0700 Message-ID: <4D8530EF.5040307@mentor.com> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:40:47 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <6F3B187F-5497-4504-9EEB-99204CCC815B@vanille-media.de> <4D83E632.2040701@xora.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D83E632.2040701@xora.org.uk> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2011 22:41:08.0944 (UTC) FILETIME=[BD7F6500:01CBE686] Subject: Re: blacklist.bbclass X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:42:57 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/18/2011 04:09 PM, Graeme Gregory wrote: > 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. OK. Can we change the message so it says ${DISTRO} doesn't support, rather than Angstrom doesn't support? -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation