[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] Do not suggest PREFERRED_PROVIDER for runtime providers.

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2016-02-18 at 15:15 +0000, Christopher Larson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:34 AM Ismo Puustinen <
> ismo.puustinen at intel.com> wrote:
> > PREFERRED_PROVIDER affects only build-time dependencies. Do not
> > suggest
> > the user to set it if the multiple providers are for runtime
> > packages.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ismo Puustinen <ismo.puustinen at intel.com>
> This is incorrect. Build provider preferences affect runtime provider
> resolution. It'd be better if we used a separate variable for it, but
> that's not the case now.

I think you're both right.

The message as it stands today confuses users no end and we do need to
do something about that. Equally I'm not sure no message at all is an
improvement...

There definitely is a usability problem there.

Cheers,

Richard