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Subject: Re: Why PREFERRED_VERSION setting of <distro>.conf overrules local.conf setting ?
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On 11 August 2010 06:26, Chris Larson <clarson@kergoth.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>wro=
te:
>> What's the point of setting a preferred version at all if you make it a
>> weak assignment?
>> The distro nearly always knows better and if you want to use a different
>> version, sending a patch to change that version for review isn't exactly
>> rocket science.
>
>
> How about having decent usability? =A0The user asking for something and n=
ot
> getting it is completely unintuitive. =A0If the user doesn't know what th=
ey
> want, they won't request a specific version. =A0If they do request it, th=
ey
> should get it, anything else is an OE usability issue.

Precisely. The user shouldn't have to understand the details of
parsing order, weak assignments, etc. in order to write a local.conf
which works for them.

Patch to follow.

-Graham