On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 4:54 PM Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > > In talking with some others about layer setup and configuration, we > were talking about some of the challenges and the general confusion > that there is, particularly around priorities. > > We asked the question "when do you actually need to use priorities?". > The answer seemed to be not that often in reality. > > That leads to the question, could we just drop it? > > Amongst a small group of us, that had a surprising amount of support, > enough that I've decided to write the idea down and put it on the list. > > Yes, removing it might break a few things however it could be a big > usability and understandably win. The people I've talked to so far > would happily fix any fallout for that win. > > Just for completeness, I want to mention that the history of this comes > from pre layer days when we had "collections" as a poor version of > layers. I believe layers, BBMASK, bbappends and the fact we have much > few recipes with multiple versions all point to this as being obsolete > technology we no longer need. > > Thoughts? >
I just got bitten by this again... I have a need of an older linux-libc-headers for a particular machine, had wired everything up so it built as I wanted, but then when I switched back to a sensible machine, was surprised when I still got old headers, because of BBFILE_PRIORITY. Still a +1 from me to get rid of it! -- Alex Kiernan
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