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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 0/1] Reorder ${PN} and ${PN}-dev
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On 05/21/2012 08:54 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Mark Hatle<mark.hatle@windriver.com>  wrote:
>> On 5/21/12 1:42 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
>>>
>>> This RFC is the first pass at reordering the above 2 items in
>>> the PACKAGES list. This is in part an out cropping of the bug
>>> #2367 (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2367),
>>> which show the miss packaged pcap-config file.
>>
>>
>> I've often wondered why the order is the way it is.  If I were to do this
>> from scratch, I'd move the ${PN} item to last in the default order.  Have
>> you considered this more radical approach, that would then allow all of the
>> default splits to occur before the ${PN} processing.  (It might also allow
>> the ${PN} to simply be a "/*" instead of more complex rules.)
>
> This would be quite nice, if we could pull it off without breaking
> anything horribly.

I will give it a try and post a buildhistory repo in a couple of days, 
it will be alot to compare!

Sau!