The meta- prefix for layers is purely customary convention and has been adopted as best practice. There is no technical reason for it. The only place where the name of a layer directory is referenced is in bblayers.conf. Technically, you can give your layer any name you want to as long as it is compliant with directory names of the filesystem.
:rjs On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Bill Traynor wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> > wrote: > > > > section 5.1.1 of dev manual: > > > > "Folders that are layers begin with the string meta." > > > > section 5.1.2, immediately afterwards: > > > > "Traditionally, prepend the name of the folder with the string > meta." > > > > those two statements are somewhat contradictory. > > > > > > The first statement is in a paragraph describing the identification > > of a layer within the Source directory, i.e. its name begins with > > "meta". > > > > The second statement is describing the naming of the folder that > > will contain a new layer, i.e. pre-pend the name with "meta". > > > > I'm not sure I see the contradiction here. Can you explain? > > the (as i see it) inconsistency is that it's not clear whether a > layer name *must* begin with the prefix "meta-". if one says that > something happens "traditionally", that suggests it's not mandatory, > simply a matter of custom. > > i'd prefer that that section was explicit. you can never go wrong > being explicit. :-) > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > > -- -- *Rudolf J. Streif* Director of Embedded Solutions The Linux Foundation rudolf.str...@linux.com Phone: +1.619.631.5383 Skype: rudolfstreif PGP: RSA 2048/2048 D6E7D28B Linux Foundation Events Schedule: events.linuxfoundation.org Linux Foundation Training Schedule: training.linuxfoundation.org
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