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On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Sat, 2015-02-21 at 05:09 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> > p.s. i also notice that a small number of OE recipes contain the
> > apparently redundant setting:
> >
> > $ grep -r "^S = \"\${WORKDIR}/\${BP}\"" *
> > meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_4.8.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/${BP}"
> > meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_5.2.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/${BP}"
> > meta/recipes-support/taglib/taglib_1.9.1.bb:S = "${WORKDIR}/${BP}"
> > $
> >
> > which i would be tempted to remove, just because i'm a big fan of
> > minimalization.
>
> Those can likely be cleaned up, yes. Patches welcome.

  i'll put something together ...

rday

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