[yocto] is it not a *requirement* that layers start with "meta-"?

[micke.prag at telldus.se]

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 08:31:58 -0500 (EST)
> From:
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> To: Anders Darander
<anders at chargestorm.se>
> Cc: Yocto discussion list
<yocto at yoctoproject.org>,
> "peterengcomau001 at adam.com.au"
<peterengcomau001 at adam.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [yocto] is it not a
*requirement* that layers start with
> "meta-"?
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> On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Anders Darander
wrote:
> 
>> * Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> [150105 18:09]:

>> 
>>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
>> 
>>>> If
anyone can locate some scripts or something that actually does require
"meta-" to be prepended please let me know. That changes how we describe
this.
>> for pkg in `bitbake -s | awk '{ print $1 }'`; do ... snip ...
>

> ah, quite so, so perhaps the "meta-" prefix is not a real
>
requirement, just convention.
> 
> rday
> 
> --

The layer
"openembedded-core" does not start with "meta-". 
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