[poky] DISTRO specification within distro files?

[Laszlo Papp]

After a quick discussion with Richard on IRC, it seems to be
historical for me, probably kept for compatibility.

That I can understand as a reason. Thanks Richard, again, for explaining it.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The poky and poky-tiny distribution configuration files are having the
> DISTRO variable specified. I would have thought it is only supposed to
> be used by the distro users, not for distro definition.
>
> This was changed in 2005 by Richard ("CC"'d).
>
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/build?h=clyde&id=f8f6ddf146ae0b63089d9dfd7aa4e1426935ac02
>
> Having asked it on IRC, it seems that no one has any idea so far why
> it is there.
>
> Can someone please comment on it with the required knowledge?
>
> Cheers, L.