[poky] bbappend and require

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Paul Eggleton
<paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 June 2011 20:21:57 Chris Larson wrote:
>> Nature of the terminology being used, it's unclear whether 'require'
>> means 'recipe dependency' or 'the bitbake "require" command' in this
>> context :)
>
> I think it's clear from Ilya's message that he means the require command. To
> me it's not clear however whether using "require" (or "include" for that
> matter) means that bbappends should also be included. I can certainly see how
> someone could assume that they would be.

Agreed, but that's not the case currently. Perhaps we should improve
the documentation? People *have*, however, requested the ability to
bbappend to .inc's before, which is what this would get us, but would
mean substantial changes to how bitbake implements it. We have bigger
priorities :)
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics