[OE-core] [PATCH] base.bbclass: Add support to EXTRA_DISTRO_FEATURES

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 10:43 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> That only filters out recommendations though.  A good example is some x86
>> packagegroups have a requirement of 'vte'.  It turns out a class of end users
>> don't want 'vte'.  And they have no easy way to remove it.  Telling them to
>> generate a new image, with a custom IMAGE_INSTALL value that includes everything
>> except 'vte' doesn't make sense to them.
>
> I'm not familiar with the particular example that you mentioned, but it
> sounds as though the packagegroups in question ought to be recommending
> vte rather than depending on it.  I think this is probably true for
> packagegroup dependencies in general in fact.
>
> The intended semantics of RDEPENDS are that anything named in that list
> is absolutely required for correct operation and can't be removed
> without breaking the functionality of the package that's doing the
> depending.  Things that are desirable but not absolutely necessary
> should be in RRECOMMENDS (and can be suppressed with
> BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS), and things which are entirely optional but might
> be "nice to have" should be in RSUGGESTS.

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