Re: [thud][PATCH] Revert "OpkgPM: use --add-ignore-recommends to process BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS"

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:21:11PM -0700, akuster808 wrote:
> On 10/17/19 11:42 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > Thank you for this revert! I've been pulling my hair out past couple days 
> > figuring out why BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS stopped working for us. This fixed it.
> 
> What I find curious is that the offending commit has been in thud since
> July 29th and we are just now hearing about issues.
>...

The "Yocto is not a distribution, it is a tool to build distributions"
adds a layer between Yocto upstream and users that results in users
usually using old Yocto releases.

How large is actually the fraction of users who are creating their own 
distributions based on Yocto releases taken directly from upstream?

I would suspect most users are using 3rd party distributions provided by 
hardware vendors or companies like Wind River.

This adds quite a delay between a change being released in a Yocto 
stable release, and users actually using it.

When the distribution they are using is based on a thud release, new 
Yocto releases from that branch will only reach them when/if their 
distribution provider has updated and validated this change and made
a new release of the distribution.

Related, many of the Yocto user questions in various places tend to be 
for 2-3 year old Yocto releases. Often these sound like people just 
starting a new project with a distibution based on an old Yocto release.

> - armin

cu
Adrian

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