On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 20:48 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Do we really need the same semantics for every EXTRA_foo variable, which > is: "feel free to use = for this variable, because no build class has a > default for it" [which would be nice and consistent] or can we go for > different semantics, i.e. document in opie.bbclass: "if you inherit this > build class, you are not allowed to overwrite EXTRA_foo unless you know > what you are doing. standard usage is to append to EXTRA_foo".
We already have precedent for appending to variables such as the bootstrap image extra rdepends. In general we should probably append a lot more than we do. I don't see an issue with having certain variables being append by default. Richard _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
