[OE-core] how to cleanly centralize a zillion BBCLASSEXTEND += "nativesdk" settings?

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org <openembedded-core-
> bounces at lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of rpjday at crashcourse.ca
> Sent: den 2 mars 2020 13:41
> To: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: [OE-core] how to cleanly centralize a zillion BBCLASSEXTEND +=
> "nativesdk" settings?
> 
> layer i'm currently perusing has many, many bbappend files, of which
> quite a number are nothing more than the single line:
> 
>    BBCLASSEXTEND += "nativesdk"
> 
> literally, at least a hundred append files are like that. so rather
> than clutter up the layer with all those trivial .bbappend files,
> can one cram all that into a single .conf file? as i read it, can i
> do something like:
> 
>    BBCLASSEXTEND_append_pn-pkg1 = " nativesdk"
>    BBCLASSEXTEND_append_pn-pkg2 = " nativesdk"
>    ... and on and on ...
> 
> and toss all that into a distro.conf file or something?
> 
>    and even if that works, is it considered good coding style?
> 
> rday

Sounds perfectly fine. We do something similar, but in our case we need 
to add "native" to BBCLASSEXTEND for a whole bunch of recipes.

//Peter