> -----Original Message----- > From: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org <openembedded- > c...@lists.openembedded.org> On Behalf Of Bruce Ashfield > Sent: den 1 september 2021 15:24 > To: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenac...@bootlin.com> > Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer <openembedded- > c...@lists.openembedded.org> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] meta: stop using "virtual/" in RPROVIDES > and RDEPENDS > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:20 AM Michael Opdenacker > <michael.opdenac...@bootlin.com> wrote: > > > > Fixes [YOCTO #14538] > > > > Recipes shouldn't use the "virtual/" string in RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS. > > > > That's confusing because "virtual/" has no special meaning in > > RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS (unlike in PROVIDES and DEPENDS). > > > > Instead, using "virtual-" instead of "virtual/" > > as already done in the glibc recipe. > > We have quite a few cases in meta-virtualization, where the same > unclear syntax is used. > > I can take care of updating it, if you aren't looking at it already. > > Bruce
Can anyone enlighten me to what benefit changing "virtual/" to "virtual-" for runtime dependencies gives? AFAIU, this makes no technical difference and everything will still work exactly as before, but with a different provided name. If you then have virtual/foo for build dependencies and virtual-foo for the corresponding runtime dependencies, then I only see increased confusion with a change like this. And yes, I know about the problems with virtual runtime dependencies, but in my experience, as long as you do not try to create a global package repository with packages from multiple builds, but only use the packages created by bitbake to generate an image, they work as expected. //Peter
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