Re: [PATCH 3/4] tar: upgrade to v1.26

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 6/6/11 5:46 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:00 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 21:49 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
>>>  SECTION = "base"
>>> +PRIORITY = "optional"
>>
>> Seeing this sort of thing makes me wonder whether SECTION and PRIORITY
>> actually belong in the core metadata at all.  It seems as though the
>> determination of what exactly is "standard" vs "optional" is a matter of
>> distro policy and this would be better done in the distro config files.
>>
>> Also, just on a pragmatic issue, the two values above are actually what
>> bitbake.conf sets as default anyway so there isn't much to be gained by
>> specifying them in the recipe as well.
> 
> I have to admit I keep wondering about these.
> 
> PRIORITY does seem a bit of a pointless variable in the default metadata
> and I'm borderline in favour of dropping it and leaving it to any
> distros who want to use it, maybe sharing an include file.

I agree as well, PRIORITY seems a bit iffy at this point.

> SECTION does at least start to become useful in an image generation UI
> as a way to group packages roughly by type which makes me think it has a
> good default usecase (and OE-Core did clean up the values of it to at
> least be consistent).

I think the value of SECTION needs to remain.  It's being used to group the
packages (as Richard mentions...)

Just my 2-cents.

--Mark

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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