[yocto] contradictory explanations of IMAGE_INSTALL in yocto manuals

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Rudolf Streif wrote:

> I tried the versions _append and += as well as _prepend and =+ with
> the IMAGE_INSTALL and other variables. So far I have not run into
> any issues where one would behave differently from the other. The
> only thing you have to remember with the _append and _prepend
> versions is that you have to include a space at the beginning for
> _append and at the end for _prepend. Although I have found that not
> always to be consistent either. However, an additional space does
> not hurt.

  well, as i mentioned, the manual suggests quite strongly that there
is a fundamental difference.  i'd just like to understand clearly what
that is.

rday

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