Re: [PATCH 3/4] tar: upgrade to v1.26

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

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:00 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 21:49 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
> >  SECTION = "base"
> > +PRIORITY = "optional"
> 
> Seeing this sort of thing makes me wonder whether SECTION and PRIORITY
> actually belong in the core metadata at all.  It seems as though the
> determination of what exactly is "standard" vs "optional" is a matter of
> distro policy and this would be better done in the distro config files.
> 
> Also, just on a pragmatic issue, the two values above are actually what
> bitbake.conf sets as default anyway so there isn't much to be gained by
> specifying them in the recipe as well.

I have to admit I keep wondering about these.

PRIORITY does seem a bit of a pointless variable in the default metadata
and I'm borderline in favour of dropping it and leaving it to any
distros who want to use it, maybe sharing an include file.

SECTION does at least start to become useful in an image generation UI
as a way to group packages roughly by type which makes me think it has a
good default usecase (and OE-Core did clean up the values of it to at
least be consistent).

Cheers,

Richard