On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Andre McCurdy wrote: ... snip ...
> PROVIDES sets up a name which can be used as DEPENDS (ie a build > time dependency) in other recipes. If PROVIDES contains more than > one name, they all just become aliases for each other. > > Since packagegroup recipes only define run time dependencies, > nothing should have a build time dependency on a packagegroup > recipe... and so there's no obvious reason to set PROVIDES to > anything. Leaving the default will be fine (although it won't be > used for anything). can someone verify that packagegroup recipe files indeed do not need a PROVIDES line? if not, i can submit a patch to toss them from meta-openembedded as well. it seems(?) fairly obvious that those lines are superfluous, but i've been surprised before. rday
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