Greetings,
Thank you all for your replies and comments!
On 24.02.23 at 00:24, Tom Hochstein wrote:
I agree. The problem I have with these variable names is that it's ambiguous
whether the features will be included or excluded from the backfill. All you
can tell from the names is that the values were 'considered'. What does that
mean? You have to go to the manual to find the full meaning.
What's important about the variables is that they will be 'excluded' from the
backfill, so this does look much clearer to me:
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_EXCLUDED += "some-feature"
Richard, would you accept it if I sent a patch replacing
"BACKFILL_CONSIDERED" by "BACKFILL_EXCLUDED" in the two variables?
Of course, I can understand if that's too late for the next release, and
instead document this oddity, at least before we can make a change again.
Is there a good reason why we have this separate variable and can't just do
this?
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL:remove = "some-feature"
Good question. Maybe because ":remove" is final, and cannot be
overridden, if I understood correctly?
Cheers
Michael.
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Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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