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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] base-files: create typical merged /usr symlinks if the "merged-usr" distro feature is set
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On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 00:53 +0100, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> +PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \
> +                   ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'merged-usr','merged-usr', '', d)} \

Why is this DISTRO_FEATURE (or the corresponding PACKAGECONFIG)
required?  Surely it ought to suffice to simply set ${base_bindir} etc,
and everything else should follow from that.  This, albeit the other way
around, is what micro has been doing for years.

p.