On Tuesday 12 June 2012 11:31:59 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > Any core-image-* would do e.g. core-image-minimal, and you could just use > > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "strace" in your local.conf to have strace > > installed in the image by default for the purpose of doing this test. > > i remember running across precisely that and being somewhat confused > by how that was described: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/18105 > > i still think there's some redundancy involving using both "_EXTRA_" > and "+=" in the same directive.
Ultimately it's a variable like any other. Using += works regardless of whether someone has already set it or not and doesn't disturb any existing items if they have. I agree that in our examples we should try to be consistent though. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
