On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 07:09 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 6/6/11 5:46 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > 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.
So do we have a consensus that PRIORITY should be removed? Is there anybody who wants to speak up in favour of keeping it? > > 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...) Yeah, fair enough. SECTION does appear in output packages (at least for ipk/deb, it's mapped to the Section: header), but there is probably no harm in having it used for source package grouping in oecommander-type interfaces as well. And I guess, unlike PRIORITY, it does seem reasonable for the core metadata to assign some half-sensible default package sections as a starting point for distro customisation. p. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
