On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 2:26 PM Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote: > > pursuant to cleaning up some docs and tweaking the style guide, > i just want to clarify that the *proper* assignment to DEPENDS > in recipe files is: > > DEPENDS = "..." > > unless (of course) that assignment is preceded by a "require" > of a .inc file that assigns to that variable, whereupon the "+=" > would make sense. > > other than that, though, can i assume there is no rationale > for "DEPENDS += ..." in terms of coding style? (being a minimalist, > i hate extraneous operators.)
Wasn't the same question asked recently about PROVIDES? I think the ruling there was that += is the "proper" assignment. Is there a rationale for treating them differently?
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