[OE-core] [PATCH] polkit: Enable systemd support

Radu Moisan radu.moisan at intel.com
Fri Feb 1 11:40:18 UTC 2013


On 02/01/2013 12:27 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 1 February 2013 10:22, Radu Moisan <radu.moisan at intel.com> wrote:
>> I did change that manually because I assumed it was a typo. However it make
>> sense to add consolekit as a runtime dependency, but the documentation
>> specifically says PACKAGECONFIG will add to DEPENDS. How is it different in
>> this patch? The PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] is clearly specifying a build time
>> dependency, why the PACKAGECONFIG[consolekit] is specifying a runtime
>> dependency? How can I discriminate in this context?
> I spoke to Radu online already, but I'll repeat again here in case
> anyone else is confused by PACKAGECONFIG.
>
> The latest documentation is here:
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#var-P
>
> The key point is that the 3rd argument is DEPENDS, and the fourth is
> RDEPENDS.  Many instances of PACKAGECONFIG will leave out the fourth,
> but in this case the third is empty (note the extra commas) so
> consolekit is added as a runtime dependency.
>
> Ross

Thanks guys for the clarification. Very useful info, I didn't notice the 
extra comma.

Radu




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