On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:21:26PM +0100, David Nyström wrote: > On mån 3 feb 2014 14:03:47, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > On Monday 03 February 2014 13:58:49 David Nyström wrote: > >> An intended fix for below error message with core-image-lsb, > >> Sending this as an RFC since I dont really know what constitutes > >> a RRECOMMENDS vs. RDEPENDS. > >> Is this clearly defined somewhere ? > >> Below should be an RDEPENDS, no ? > > > > Does this actually fix the problem though? An RRECOMMENDS would only not be > > satisfied if the package ended up empty, or you were using > > BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS > > (or NO_RECOMMENDATIONS). I can't see this change actually accomplishing > > anything. > > > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > > Thanks for the quick reply, > I was using --no-recommends, via the opkg package-manager. > (rootfs-sandbox). > > Regarding the split between RRECOMMENDS and RDEPENDS: > In my understanding, RRECOMMENDS would be when the functionality is > optional, > RDEPENDS when dependency is hard.
Don't forget on RSUGGESTS :) RDEPENDS - hard dependency RRECOMMENDS - optional dependency, but good to have in most cases by default unless it's unavailable (e.g. typical for kernel-modules-*) or distro/user knows what he is doing and decides to add it in BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS or removes is on target explicitly RSUGGESTS - really optional dependency > To me, this seems like a hard dependency. But a definition between the > two would be good to have > for future patches. > > Br, > David > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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