how many ways to delete/de-activate a recipe's task?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

  i recall that richard purdie might have explained this once but i
have no idea where that post is and i need to add something to it,
anyway ... how many ways are there to "delete" a task from a recipe,
and what are the differences?

  so far, i've seen:

1) bitbake supports a "deltask" directive

2) you can use the [noexec] task flag

3) i've also seen redefining the task with a no-op ":" command

  so what are the differences, and when would someone use one over the
others? thanks.

rday

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