On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 13:48 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, [email protected] wrote: > > ... snip ... > > > which seems odd as there don't appear to be any other recipes that > > > provide pkgconfig, and AIUI, the default provider for any recipe is > > > the recipe with *exactly* the same name as the target -- in this > > > case, > > > "pkgconfig". > > ... > > > > also wanted to clarify, while the default provider of a dependency > > is the recipe with *exactly* that name, i'm assuming (i think i > > remember this from somewhere) that if you have a number of recipes > > that all provide, say, "virtual/kernel", and you have an explicit > > dependency of "virtual/kernel", you *must* supply a > > > > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = ... > > > > line, yes? as in, there's no weird processing to figure out which > > recipe you'll be arbitrarily handed among the several that could be > > used. > > The resolution code is deterministic (i.e. it might sort them) but > there is no specific default provider, no.
ah, so if you don't specify a PREFERRED_PROVIDER, then *some* provider will ultimately be selected, is that it? you just won't have any gurarantee which one it will be. rday
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