On Wed, 3 Dec 2025, Alexander Kanavin wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 at 14:54, Robert P. J. Day via
> lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >   currently writing a ptest tutorial/presentation (maybe i'll offer to
> > give a tutorial at next year's virtual summit), and ran across this
> > oddity in OE's cpio recipe:
> >
> > https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.15.bb#n72
> >
> >   RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "ptest-runner coreutils"
> >
> > why would that variable for *any* recipe specify a run-time dependency
> > on ptest-runner? that seems odd.
>
> The first explanation you should consider: recipes accumulate a lot of
> obsolete or redundant cruft over time that no one has time to research
> and clean up, and this is one such. 'git blame' might reveal why it
> was added in the fist place.
>
> ptest.bbclass has:
> RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += "ptest-runner"
> which supersedes this.

  i'll submit a patch to clean this up. one of my weaknesses is that
whenever i see something odd or unusual, i immediately assume it's
because it's so clever that i don't understand it. i need to get over
that.

rday
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