From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1T2LvA-0004Zj-Nx for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:45:00 +0200 Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Aug 2012 05:33:01 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,784,1336374000"; d="scan'208";a="181939772" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.121.90]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Aug 2012 05:33:00 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Martin Jansa Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:32:59 +0100 Message-ID: <3890692.qcbBpDRmfO@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.9 (Linux/3.2.0-29-generic-pae; KDE/4.9.0; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120817123017.GI3625@jama.jama.net> References: <4141908.n3IAyUAFPz@helios> <20120817123017.GI3625@jama.jama.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove older GTK+ versions X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:45:01 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Friday 17 August 2012 14:30:17 Martin Jansa wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:27:20PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > On Friday 17 August 2012 12:35:07 Ross Burton wrote: > > > If someone still wants to use them, meta-oe is a better place for them > > > to > > > live. > > > > As a general note, personally I'd rather that no more alternative versions > > of anything be added to meta-oe. > > Yes especially with DEFAULT_PREFERRENCE not working between layers.. so > everyone with meta-oe and without P_V set, would get this old version.. The best plan it would seem to me would be to have a separate meta-archive or meta-attic or similar named layer for these older recipes, and set its layer priority to the same as OE-Core. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre