meta: Drop useless class

This class was added by me back in 2007 and has changed one for a whitespace issue
since. It only has two lines and neither are particularly useful, one was replaced
by the nopackages class, the other adding recursive dependencies also is now
mainly problematic adding tons of unneeded dependencies. The name is hard to
understand and the class doesn't have a clear purpose. Drop it.

Remove the references in devtool (which may be the one reason to keep it around
but in my view still not worth it).

(From OE-Core rev: 6e2cbfc561dac89bf9183d24d90e52f7d9117826)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

3 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/meta.bbclass b/meta/classes/meta.bbclass
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e6890238b..0000000000
--- a/meta/classes/meta.bbclass
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-
-PACKAGES = ""
-
-do_build[recrdeptask] = "do_build"
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index 6d9cd46bf3..f495e84c79 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ class DevtoolModifyTests(DevtoolBase):
         self.track_for_cleanup(self.workspacedir)
         self.add_command_to_tearDown('bitbake-layers remove-layer */workspace')
 
-        testrecipes = 'perf kernel-devsrc package-index core-image-minimal meta-toolchain packagegroup-core-sdk meta-ide-support'.split()
+        testrecipes = 'perf kernel-devsrc package-index core-image-minimal meta-toolchain packagegroup-core-sdk'.split()
         # Find actual name of gcc-source since it now includes the version - crude, but good enough for this purpose
         result = runCmd('bitbake-layers show-recipes gcc-source*')
         for line in result.output.splitlines():
diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index b74a60d001..01fb5ad96f 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -318,10 +318,6 @@ def _check_compatible_recipe(pn, d):
         raise DevtoolError("The %s recipe is a packagegroup, and therefore is "
                            "not supported by this tool" % pn, 4)
 
-    if bb.data.inherits_class('meta', d):
-        raise DevtoolError("The %s recipe is a meta-recipe, and therefore is "
-                           "not supported by this tool" % pn, 4)
-
     if bb.data.inherits_class('externalsrc', d) and d.getVar('EXTERNALSRC'):
         # Not an incompatibility error per se, so we don't pass the error code
         raise DevtoolError("externalsrc is currently enabled for the %s "