On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 13:45 -0800, Andre McCurdy wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 1:20 PM Ross Burton <ross@...> wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 19:32, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@...> wrote:
This isn't equivalent - it will cause a change in behaviour for anyone using PACKAGECONFIG += "foo" from a .bbappend.
Correct, but this is likely the only recipe in the greater ecosystem which has this behaviour, so I'm not that bothered to be honest. :)
The only recipe? There are many recipes which set a default PACKAGECONFIG with ?= and many which set it with ??=. Your change is effectively switching the vim recipe from one approach to the other. The fact that adding PACKAGECONFIG options from a .bbappend with += sometimes works OK and sometimes not is a source of confusion for new users.
You are right that no one seems to care though...
Some of us very much do care, it is actually bothering me a lot and I've posted several times on the architecture list about this kind of issue.
We haven't worked out what we can agree to do about it though :(.
