On Wed, 2021-09-29 at 09:24 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > +RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev = ""
> 
> At that point what is the point of the -dev package? I think you could make
> this argument about a lot of the -dev packages and I'm not sure I'd want to
> see every recipe doing this.
> 
> What are you using the -dev package for and do you need it at all?

The -dev package isn't needed for anything, but it gets pulled in when
"populate_sdk" is built. That does a glob over all -dev packages for
any built package.

Cheers,
Matt

> 
> [As an aside, I do think the -dev package dependencies need rethinking but
> that is a lot more work which nobody seems very interested in]
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 


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