On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 15:33 +1200, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:27:25 Burton, Ross wrote: > > On 18 April 2016 at 03:57, Robert Yang <liezhi.y...@windriver.com> > > wrote: > > > The recipe which inherits meta.bbclass doesn't require any > > > default deps. > > > > meta is only inherited by one class (populate_sdk_base.bbclass) and > > three > > recipes (two of which indirectly inherit populate_sdk_base) so do > > we really > > need this class? Maybe we should drop it in the 2.2 cycle. > > I don't think we ought to be in too much of a hurry to remove this - > it's > still a handy class. Besides I was planning on using it to solve this > issue: > > https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9257
I have the opposite view. Its pretty much impossible to tell what a "meta" class would do from its name or have any idea of whether a given change should be added to the class since its purpose is so vague. I'l like to see it renamed to something more useful, or removed given its just two lines... Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
