Bug 11168

Summary: multiconfig: use 'mc:' qualifier instead of 'multiconfig:'
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Henry Bruce <henry.bruce>
Component: configurationAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+    
Version: 2.2   
Target Milestone: 2.8 M1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description Henry Bruce 2017-03-15 23:03:01 UTC 
Syntax for invoking multiconfig  builds is as follows
$ bitbake multiconfig:config-name:recipe-name

Recommending that this be shortened to 
$ bitbake mc:config-name:recipe-name
For two reasons
1. It matches bitbake task logging output
2. Much less typing
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2017-03-16 15:21:26 UTC 
I'm not sure about this. It is true I shortened the console output as it was pretty annoying/unusable before. A quick poll on the triage call suggested the people who've used it were happy with the output.

The problem with shortening the class prefix on the commandline is we're then going to have to make things like the conf directory match. Its not going to be clear to users what these conf/mc/xxx.conf files are for.

So whilst I can see why you're asking for this, I'm not sure it wouldn't create more confusion than it solves. I was wondering about closing this as WONTFIX on that basis however I've pushed it to future for now to see if there are any opinions on this. You could poll on the mailing list about this?