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+This folder shall only contain copies from recent meta-oe recipes that are integrated because
+of missing dependencies for KDE libraries and applications. Note that there is no harm in providing
+an outdated recipe when also a new meta-oe layer is integrated, because the newer layer then is used.
+
+Recipes shall be grouped by the oldest layer for which the recipe is required for compatibilty in order
+to ease later cleaning of obsolete recipes.