On 11 August 2010 06:26, Chris Larson <clar...@kergoth.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi <k.k...@student.utwente.nl>wrote: >> What's the point of setting a preferred version at all if you make it a >> weak assignment? >> The distro nearly always knows better and if you want to use a different >> version, sending a patch to change that version for review isn't exactly >> rocket science. > > > How about having decent usability? The user asking for something and not > getting it is completely unintuitive. If the user doesn't know what they > want, they won't request a specific version. If they do request it, they > should get it, anything else is an OE usability issue.
Precisely. The user shouldn't have to understand the details of parsing order, weak assignments, etc. in order to write a local.conf which works for them. Patch to follow. -Graham _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
