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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