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From: Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: OE Core mailing list <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH RFC] bitbake.conf/pseudo: Switch from exclusion list to inclusion list
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:35:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EB76304D-B0BE-46D9-83D7-A627844088DC@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231211173553.2421931-1-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

On 11 Dec 2023, at 17:35, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org <richard.purdie=linuxfoundation.org@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
> 
> Currently, pseudo tracks all files referenced within it's presence unless
> they're listed in an exclusion list. The exclusion list has grown to be
> fairly unwieldy.
> 
> This patch swaps PSEUDO_IGNORE_PATHS for PSEUDO_INCLUDE_PATHS which in
> theory should be easier and more explicit to maintain.

I’ve never understood the rationale behind exclude over include (then again there’s lots I don’t understand), so I’m very much for this in principle.

Ross


  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-11 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-11 17:35 [PATCH RFC] bitbake.conf/pseudo: Switch from exclusion list to inclusion list Richard Purdie
2023-12-11 20:35 ` Ross Burton [this message]
2023-12-11 23:31   ` [OE-core] " Richard Purdie
2023-12-12 18:44   ` Mark Hatle
2023-12-12 18:51     ` Seebs

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