Re: [p2-dev] p2 flavors

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest ignoring the existence of
flavours. It was a concept that was never fully fleshed out and exercised
and we'll likely need to revisit whether to keep it in. The idea was to
allow different sets of configuration data to be bound to an IU at install-time.
The canonical example is bundle start levels: you could have a "server"
flavor that sets one particular bundle start-level, and a "client"
flavor that uses a different start-level. You don't want to mix this data
into the IU because it prevents reuse of the same IU in different contexts.
In theory the set of flavours is open-ended, but in practice there exists
today only the "tooling" flavour in our repositories. I'm not
even sure if flavours are even in use today in the planner/resolver, so
setting it may not even have any effect.

Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,

Question:  Is there some documentation on p2 flavors?  e.g. what
are 
valid flavor values, what happens/is supposed to happen during 
publishing and/or installing for different flavors, etc?

Thanksinadvance,

Scott


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