On 6/6/11 5:46 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:00 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 21:49 -0700, Scott Garman wrote: >>> SECTION = "base" >>> +PRIORITY = "optional" >> >> Seeing this sort of thing makes me wonder whether SECTION and PRIORITY >> actually belong in the core metadata at all. It seems as though the >> determination of what exactly is "standard" vs "optional" is a matter of >> distro policy and this would be better done in the distro config files. >> >> Also, just on a pragmatic issue, the two values above are actually what >> bitbake.conf sets as default anyway so there isn't much to be gained by >> specifying them in the recipe as well. > > I have to admit I keep wondering about these. > > PRIORITY does seem a bit of a pointless variable in the default metadata > and I'm borderline in favour of dropping it and leaving it to any > distros who want to use it, maybe sharing an include file.
I agree as well, PRIORITY seems a bit iffy at this point. > SECTION does at least start to become useful in an image generation UI > as a way to group packages roughly by type which makes me think it has a > good default usecase (and OE-Core did clean up the values of it to at > least be consistent). I think the value of SECTION needs to remain. It's being used to group the packages (as Richard mentions...) Just my 2-cents. --Mark > Cheers, > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
