+Richard,

On 12/4/2020 6:01 AM, Phil Blundell via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:28:24PM +0000, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> This subclass allows us to easily split a recipe into
>> subpackages.
> 
> "lib_subpackage" seems a slightly odd name for something that isn't
> dealing with libraries.  What's the etymology of that?

I'm open to giving it a better name. Richard pointed me to a file
beginning with lib_foo.class for where this functionality could be
hosted before.

> 
>> +    d.appendVar("PACKAGES", " " + " ".join(packages))
>> +    d.appendVar("PROVIDES", " " + " ".join(packages))
> 
> It seems a bit strange to be putting the same things in PACKAGES and
> PROVIDES.  Is that actually necessary?

I want to be able to include procps-ps without the entire procps
package. I was not able to do that without the above two lines.

> 
> p.
> 
> 
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> 
> 

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