On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> perusing recipes for my courseware and ran across this in the listed
> file:
>
> meta/recipes-core/uclibc/uclibc.inc:do_install_append_pn-uclibc () {
>
> now, given that the above file is clearly the general include file for
> the uclibc package, could the task append definition:
>
> do_install_append_pn-uclibc () {
>
> not have been written more simply as:
>
> do_install_append () {
>
> as in, given that this task append is clearly only for the uclibc
> package, it seems unnecessary to add a package-specific override. most
> other recipes use the second, shorter form, so i was wondering if
> there was something subtle about the uclibc recipe that necessitated
> the first form.
oh, wait, i just saw the associated recipe for uclibc-initial, so
the package-specific override in the .inc file for just the uclibc
package now makes sense.
rday
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