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Subject: Re: [OE-core] any value in still supporting PACKAGE_GROUP_*?
From: "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>, OE Core mailing list
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:17:28 +0100
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On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 09:44 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   just noticed that that variable was deprecated waaaaaay back in
> 2014
> in favour of FEATURE_PACKAGES, and i see no reference to it in any of
> the numerous layers i have currently checked out.
> 
>   if someone here wants to take it out of OE-core, i can do the
> equivalent in the YP reference manual.

That can definitely be removed, I've sent a patch which I'll queue for
testing.

Cheers,

Richard