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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 08:46 +0200, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2016-05-25 08:13, Khem Raj wrote:
> > 
> > > On May 25, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > I was just wondering why sip.bbclass is in OE-core (at least
> > > the Poky version master:c7e614c438706) when nothing uses it?
> > 
> > OE-core can have components which are commonly used in OE
> > infrastructure, especially bindings
> > may be checking all layers in layerindex would better answer your
> > question
> 
> My impression was [perhaps erroneously] that for an object to be
> in OE-core, it had to be _needed_ by some other object in OE-core.
> Many recipes have been migrated out when there was no longer a
> use for them, so why not .bbclass files as well?  Most other
> layers that need .bbclass files that aren't in OE-core just have
> their own classes...

Nothing in OE-Core uses extrenalsrc directly but we'd still want
something like that in the core so I don't think the rule is absolute.
What we wouldn't want to see is multiple layers maintaining different
and potentially incompatible versions of a class file.

That said, I think there are a few that we probably could clean up.

Cheers,

Richard