[OE-core] [RFC] Add something like bitbake -cmenuconfig <recipe> ?

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 10:35 +0800, Robert Yang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is is useful/possible if we add something like bitbake <recipe> -cmenuconfig,
> just like kernel's make menuconfig ?
> 
> We can use the menuconfig to config the vars such as MACHINE, DL_DIR,
> DISTRO_FEATURES, MACHINE_FEATURES and all the variables which are
> configurable, I think that this would help the newbie a lot.
> 
> I think that we can add a menuconfig.bbclass (or other names) to do this,
> and I'd like to work on it.

Why would you want to specify a <recipe> when configuring MACHINE? I
understand why you're thinking this but it isn't well thought out and in
this form would confuse users more than help them.

I don't think the system will even parse without a valid MACHINE, let
alone execute tasks.

Cheers,

Richard