On Wed, 27 May 2020, Khem Raj wrote:

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> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:14 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>       On Tue, 26 May 2020, Khem Raj wrote:
>
>       > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:21 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
>       wrote:
>       > >
>       > > Make sure PNBLACKLIST assignments in recipe files use weak
>       > > assignment, so they can be overridden in, for example, local.conf
>       > > files.
>       > >
>       >
>       > I would like contributions here when someone fixes one of the
>       > blacklisted recipes. This patch will let downstream users host it in
>       > bbappends or other places what is the intended use of this patch?
>
>         i'm not sure what you're asking for here ... there is no claim that
>       any of these recipes have been fixed in any way, only that weak
>       assignment seems to be the default for blacklisting to at least allow
>       for the possibility of overriding.
>
>
> Ok I think that’s fine I wanted to understand the reason since weak
> assignment do have some unintended results but if it is to make it
> uniform I Think that’s fair

  discussion on YP list that inspired this:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/74460612#49479

rday