From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at layers.openembedded.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:30:42 UTC Received: from smtp485.redcondor.net (smtp485.redcondor.net [208.80.204.85]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085B37023E for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by smtp485.redcondor.net ({3be039ea-4351-44b0-a8af-642c38b25916}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTPS id 20140715112401423 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:24:01 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from [69.196.158.250] (port=51702 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X70pv-0004Lo-C8 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:23:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 07:23:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: OE Core mailing list Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-MAG-OUTBOUND: ccj.redcondor.net@64.235.106.9/32 Subject: would replacing packagegroup names with "${PN}" be useless code churn? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:30:50 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII just my sheldon cooper-like OCD coming through again, but i long ago noted that some packagegroup files do this: RDEPENDS_${PN} = "openssh" while others spell out (unnecessarily) the packagegroup name: RDEPENDS_packagegroup-core-buildessential = "\ when using ${PN} would have worked just fine. i'm a big fan of brevity so i can whip up a patch to shorter all those lines and make them clearer, unless folks think that's just unnecessary code churn. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================