Hi,

Russell Geldmacher wrote:
> I was under the impression that when OE sees a package that has
> (R)DEPENDS on another package, it will go find the one marked
> (R)PROVIDES for that functionality and build it. Is that wrong?

more or less, yes - but RDEPENDS/RPROVIDES ends up in the package dependencies
only. So if an alternate package doesn't set PROVIDES you will run into build
time dependency trouble.

Greetings

Florian

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