On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 9:55 AM Richard Purdie <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2023-06-08 at 09:33 -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > At this point, you can probably see why I ended up using the explicit
> > variables and overrides versus python when doing the
> > meta-virtualization splits. :)
> >
> > I have a few more comments that I made in v1, that I haven't seen
> > directly handled or replied to.
> >
> > My only remaining concern (and it may just be my own concern), is that
> > there's no way to change this packaging split. Either you take the
> > programatic split, or you take the -all packages.
> >
> > Other packages (glibc, kernel-modules) have a variable that controls
> > whether the split happens or not, I'd like to see something similar
> > here .. but I do realize that it makes test complexity more, and that
> > Richard normally doesn't like conditionals like that.
>
> I only "like" conditionals if it is a code path that will be well
> travelled, otherwise we tend to find one of the paths is broken. I
> don't think we need to make this conditional.
>
> > Alternatively, did we rule out using PACKAGESPLITFUNCS to add the
> > splitting routine ? With that, we could remove the processing in
> > places we don't want it, in particular for the native/sdk builds, as I
> > found that we really don't want the splitting of qemu in those
> > scenarios.
>

Can you think of a problem with the PACKAGESPLITFUNCS method for this
packaging split ?

At least that way I could inhibit it from my other layers, versus with this
prepend, I don't see any options to have my own package splitting.

Bruce



>
> FWIW, native isn't packaged so that one at least isn't a problem!
>
> I'm assuming the "all" package can be used in the SDK contexts easily
> enough to get the needed behaviour there?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>


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