On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Yong Li <sdliyong at gmail.com> wrote: > DISTRO_FEATURES_append = "directfb sysvinit" > DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "x11 wayland" i think you are missing a leading space char, it's needed with _append, or _remove. as such directfb gets concatenated with the previous word in the variable.