On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 5:54 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? > > There were some follow on ideas on BBPATH and BBFILES manipulations and > making them more like a cross of pyaddlib and addtask but those are for > another proposal/time and need a bit more thought/work. > > I support this. I haven't had a need to use this feature for a looong time. Kind regards, Marta
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