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On 05/09/12 10:15, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2012 09:49:11 Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> It has been considered witin OE to be best practice to append to BBPATH and 
> not prepend, the thinking being that then the search path matches the order of 
> the layers listed in bblayers.conf rather than the reverse.

Then meta-yocto should follow that convention ... and it needs to be
well documented, with the consequence of breaking that convention
explained, and the terrible punishments to come described in great and
sordid detail. Because this needs to be more than a convention, it needs
to be an article of faith.

Tomas