I think a better way out may be to make openssh and dropbear coinstallable?

Alex

On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 10:36, Matt Johnston <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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