On 6/16/26 8:45 AM, Alex Kiernan via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
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!
I vote for this too.
This sounds risk to rely on priorities to override things.
Priorities could change and have unexpected ripple effects.
Cheers
Michael
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