On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 13:45 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 1:20 PM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 19:32, Andre McCurdy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > This isn't equivalent - it will cause a change in behaviour for anyone
> > > using PACKAGECONFIG += "foo" from a .bbappend.
> > 
> > Correct, but this is likely the only recipe in the greater ecosystem
> > which has this behaviour, so I'm not that bothered to be honest. :)
> 
> The only recipe? There are many recipes which set a default
> PACKAGECONFIG with ?= and many which set it with ??=. Your change is
> effectively switching the vim recipe from one approach to the other.
> The fact that adding PACKAGECONFIG options from a .bbappend with +=
> sometimes works OK and sometimes not is a source of confusion for new
> users.
> 
> You are right that no one seems to care though...

Some of us very much do care, it is actually bothering me a lot and I've posted
several times on the architecture list about this kind of issue. 

We haven't worked out what we can agree to do about it though :(.

Cheers,

Richard

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