[OE-core] [PATCH] package: Recommend virtual-locale-*, don't depend on it

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> The virtual-locale-* packages are provided by libc which may or
> may not have a matching locale for any given recipes's provided locales.
> Certainly, we shouldn't get a failure if the locale package isn't
> available.
>
> This patch therefore makes the dependency optional rather than
> required, allowing the locale packages in question to install. This
> resolves errors like:
>
>         virtual-locale-eo is needed by bash-locale-eo-4.2-r5.i586
>         virtual-locale-en+boldquot is needed by bash-locale-en+boldquot-4.2-r5.i586
>         virtual-locale-en+quot is needed by bash-locale-en+quot-4.2-r5.i586
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>

This looks helpful -- I know of at least one person internal at Mentor
being bit by this.
-- 
Christopher Larson