On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 12:11 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Purdie > <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 11:48 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> This allow the addition and removal of distro features easily. To add > >> a feature, use: > >> > >> EXTRA_DISTRO_FEATURES += "wayland" > >> > >> and to remove, use '~' prefix, as: > >> > >> EXTRA_DISTRO_FEATURES += "~x11" > >> > >> This code has been mostly copied from Mentor Graphics public layer but > >> changed the variable name for a more descriptive name. The original > >> code can be seen at user_feature.bbclass at: > >> > >> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-mentor > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br> > > > > I discussed this with Otavio. My personal view is that we should hold > > off this right now. The removal issues he ran into with poky have been > > addressed in other ways so there is less of an immediate issue. > > > > The better fix for this kind of problem is -=/=- or more likely _remove > > override support in bitbake. I did propose a _remove patch a while back > > but Chris has some valid concerns about it, I don't remember the details > > offhand. I'd much rather we focused on fixing that and getting that > > merged than trying to add this functionality to every variable. > > Chris, do you know the problems Richard's patch has? I can take a look > and try to fix it so we can get this in for 1.5.
One more thing, we need to grep the existing metadata and change any existing _remove in variable names. I seem to remember finding one somewhere. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
