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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [bitbake-devel] [RFC PATCH] data_smart: Drop expand parameter default
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On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 10:25 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> 
> On 06/18/2015 10:17 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Rather than just d.getVar(X), force the use of the more explict d.getVar(X, False)
> > since at some point in the future, having the default of expansion would
> > be nice. This is the first step towards that.
> 
> Did you mean that in the future:
> 
> d.getVar("PN") equals d.getVar("PN", True) ?
> 
> That would be great since expand=True uses more frequently
> than False.

The idea would be to get there, yes. How quickly we could do it is a
good question but this would be the first step.

Cheers,

Richard