On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 3:18 PM Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:

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> > On 30 Jul 2022, at 22:24, Vincent Davis Jr via lists.openembedded.org
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hey again Ross sorry I know I already sent this meant to hit reply all.
> >
> > Meant to say for layers that contain recipes that clone different
> implementations of VLC and want to allow the ability to select an
> implementation. Would be nice to have PROVIDES = "virtual/vlc" here versus
> multiple different layers providing bbappend files that add the PROVIDES
> variable.
> >
> > Working in PR were we want to allow either upstream implementation of
> VLC or raspberry pi distro implementation.
> >
> > https://github.com/agherzan/meta-raspberrypi/pull/985
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> I still don’t see the need: meta-raspberrypi’s vlc-rpi can PROVIDE vlc and
> set PREFERRED_PROVIDER.
>

Right I think calling recipe something like Vic-raspberrypi.bb and using
PREFERRED_PROVIDER is a good idea. This will let distros make the choice as
they see fit


> Ross
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