[OE-core] should all RDEPENDS always have an attached package name?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 09:11 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   according to yocto ref manual, all uses of RDEPENDS should be
> > suffixed with a package name (normally, _${PN}, of course), but i just
> > noticed that the buildtools-tarball.bb recipe file contains:
> >
> >   RDEPENDS = "${TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK}"
> >
> > i suspect that still works just fine, but it does disagree with the
> > rather adamant admonition in the ref manual.
>
> The buildtools-tarball doesn't have any packages so in this
> particular case, it is acceptable (and accepted by bitbake and the
> QA tests).

  ah, i should have realized this was a special case.

rday

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