From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QTYfr-0002St-OM for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:12:52 +0200 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p56C9XWZ007368 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Macintosh-5.local (172.25.36.226) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 05:09:33 -0700 Message-ID: <4DECC37C.2010003@windriver.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:09:32 -0500 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <300cfa12d67e37c81fbbcdaba5c7d7686a191cfe.1307331820.git.scott.a.garman@intel.com> <1307347216.3131.5.camel@lenovo.internal.reciva.com> <1307357181.7672.3.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1307357181.7672.3.camel@rex> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] tar: upgrade to v1.26 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: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:12:52 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core