[OE-core] what means PROV_class-native = ""?

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 04:35:34PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   perusing oe-core for examples to demonstrate the concept of
> "PROVIDES =", and i ran across this in recipes-devtools/dpkg/dpkg.inc:
> 
> PROV = "virtual/update-alternatives"
> PROV_class-native = ""

PROV is variable with no special meaning
class-native is standard override for native recipe (like
virtclass-native was before).

> PROVIDES += "${PROV}"
> 
>   i'm not sure what to make of that -- what's the purpose of assigning
> to PROV, then subsequently assigning to PROVIDES, but with that
> 
> PROV_class-native = ""
> 
> line in between?  i did a grep and saw nothing else like it throughout
> oe-core.
> 
> rday
> 
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