[bitbake-devel] curious about setting of PROVIDES in bitbake.conf

[Robert P. J. Day]

  from current bitbake.conf file:

PROVIDES = ""
PROVIDES_prepend = "${PN} "

is there a reason that PROVIDES is set to null, only to immediately
set it based on the following line? is there some subtle issue this is
meant to address?

rday

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