From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 410 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at layers.openembedded.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:01:50 UTC Received: from smtp485.redcondor.net (smtp485.redcondor.net [208.80.204.85]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0C660DD7 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:01:50 +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 20141016155500624 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:55:00 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from [128.107.239.235] (port=46916 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XenOI-0003w8-J0 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:55:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:54:50 -0700 (PDT) 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: isn't "do_install_append_pn-uclibc" partly redundant? 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: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:01:50 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII perusing recipes for my courseware and ran across this in the listed file: meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc:do_install_append_pn-uclibc () { now, given that the above file is clearly the general include file for the uclibc package, could the task append definition: do_install_append_pn-uclibc () { not have been written more simply as: do_install_append () { as in, given that this task append is clearly only for the uclibc package, it seems unnecessary to add a package-specific override. most other recipes use the second, shorter form, so i was wondering if there was something subtle about the uclibc recipe that necessitated the first form. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================