Re: [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf: DISTRO_FEATURES as overrides

Patrick Ohly
2017-06-08T14:38:57Z

On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 13:16 +0000, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > My feelings are:
> >
> > * We need to use a prefix. We've been burnt too many times in the past
> > when not using these. "df-" is fine, users will just have to deal
> > with it.

Fine with me.

> > * We should filter the list of overrides to those which the distro
> > wants to nominate. I really don't want to encourage wider spread of
> > things than we need to, these need to be conscious decisions.
>
> Isn't there a risk that will be confusing? I.e., recipes that use, e.g.,
> bb.utils.contains() to check if a distro feature is set will be affected
> as soon as the feature is added to DISTRO_FEATURES, but recipes that
> use the override will only be affected if the feature has also been
> added to some filter variable.

I'm not sure. I guess it boils down to proper documentation.

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