On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 14:42, Peter Kjellerstedt < [email protected]> wrote:
> So, I will not push for this change. I think it would have been nice with > an official way to extend classes and I am willing to implement it, but if > you think it is too much of an issue and stops encouraging people to > upstream their changes, then we will make do with the workarounds. It is > not like we have to backport that many classes, so it is definitely > manageable, albeit a bit inconvenient. > I would not want a mechanism for extending classes for a different reason: it makes it a lot harder to understand and reason about the build. bbappends are already bad enough, but at least they're influencing only specific recipes unconditionally; conditional class appends would just end up producing horrible spaghetti. Alex
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