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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