On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 12:00 +0200, Marta Rybczynska wrote: > > > 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.
The challenge (and what we missed when I wrote this two years ago) is that the code automatically adds priorities even if you don't set them. There are people relying on that 'magic'. I'd still love to remove it but we can't claim that nobody uses it as many do, even if they don't realise it. Cheers, Richard
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