[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] udev: add udev-utils to RDEPENDS

David Nyström david.c.nystrom at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 13:21:26 UTC 2014


On mån  3 feb 2014 14:03:47, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Monday 03 February 2014 13:58:49 David Nyström wrote:
>> An intended fix for below error message with core-image-lsb,
>> Sending this as an RFC since I dont really know what constitutes
>> a RRECOMMENDS vs. RDEPENDS.
>> Is this clearly defined somewhere ?
>> Below should be an RDEPENDS, no ?
>
> Does this actually fix the problem though? An RRECOMMENDS would only not be
> satisfied if the package ended up empty, or you were using BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS
> (or NO_RECOMMENDATIONS). I can't see this change actually accomplishing
> anything.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>

Thanks for the quick reply,
I was using --no-recommends, via the opkg package-manager. 
(rootfs-sandbox).

Regarding the split between RRECOMMENDS and RDEPENDS:
In my understanding, RRECOMMENDS would be when the functionality is 
optional,
RDEPENDS when dependency is hard.

To me, this seems like a hard dependency. But a definition between the 
two would be good to have
for future patches.

Br,
David








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