Re: [docs] should dynamic layers be documented other than as BBFILES_DYNAMIC?

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Mon Mar 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM CET, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>   colleague asked about dynamic layers, went to point him at the
> relevant part of the docs only to notice that it is not documented
> anywhere in the main body of the docs, only via the BBFILES_DYNAMIC
> variable in the variables glossary:
>
> https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/variables.html#term-BBFILES_DYNAMIC
>
>   i don't care for the idea of the documentation of some feature being
> restricted to a short entry in the reference material; IMNSHO, any
> "reference" content should be brief and refer the reader to the
> "official" explanation somewhere else in the documentation.
>
>   if there was a "proper" place in the YP docs to cover dynamic
> layers, where theoretically would that be?

I would say the Development Tasks Manual, in a new document called
documentation/dev-manual/dynamic-layers.rst: "Creating Dynamic Layers".

Patches welcome!

Antonin