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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