On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 10:59 AM Michael Opdenacker via
lists.yoctoproject.org
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> Anybody else finding the DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED and
> MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED variable names confusing?

I believe the history there is that those are "features" that were
just always available and couldn't be turned off (e.g. they were
implicit). When they became available to be turned off, it was desired
to not break existing setups by making them "off by default", so you
have to explicitly opt-out of said feature. I always think of it as "I
CONSIDERED this features and don't want it"


>
> According to the documentation about "feature backfilling"
> (https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ref-manual/features.html#ref-features-backfill),
> these variables allow to exclude some features from being backfilled.
>
> I'm not a native English speaker, but for me, "considered" carries the
> intention to include a feature, not to exclude one.
>
> Shouldn't we call these variables DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_EXCLUDED and
> MACHINE_FEATURES_BACKFILL_EXCLUDED instead ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Cheers
> Michael.
>
> --
> Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com
>
>
> 
>
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