[OE-core] Preventing RRECOMMENDS from installing

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 10 January 2012 10:08:24 Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 11:03 +0100, Anders Darander wrote:
> > Is there a simple way, in a bbappend-file to prevent packages in an
> > RRECOMMENDS from being installed? E.g. if package foo has:
> > RRECOMMENDS_${PN} += "bar"
> 
> If you mean you just want to stop them getting installed during rootfs
> construction, you can achieve that by declaring them to be
> BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS.

FWIW, it should be noted that this currently works for ipk packaging only.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre