On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:14:41AM +0930, Graham Gower wrote: > 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.
Yeah, and then distro maintainers are blamed for the breakage when users unpin and change specific dependency for a package. It's not just the parsing order problem. It's not clear for users that if they change anything in local.conf, it can break. I.e. you break it - you fix it. -- Denys _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
