Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2] mesa: Add native patch via a variable

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2022-10-19 at 18:04 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> Khem, sorry but no. We have well defined mechanisms for reuse, and
> including bits and pieces of recipes from completely different layers
> is not one of them. I do not want to hear even more complaints about
> 'breaking' things than I already do when trying to make things better,
> simpler and more maintainable, and I do not want to be paralysed by
> fear of invisible breakage in custom layers when doing so.
> 
> If you *really* want to make bits of mesa recipe 'public', put them in
> a bbclass.

I disagree with this a bit. The .inc files are there to allow this in
some cases. It used to be something which happened a lot as there were
many versions of things. Thankfully we don't have so many versions now.

Removing .inc files which aren't needed is fine, but removing them
where there is BSP usage seems a bit unfair. We should try and ensure
the .inc files really only include the common packaging code.

Obviously those using the .inc files do so knowing they can change from
under them.

Cheers,

Richard