[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gawk: remove dgawk and pgawk packages, merge gawk-common into gawk

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Jun 9 10:50:29 UTC 2014


On 7 June 2014 11:50, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> -PACKAGES += "gawk-common pgawk dgawk"
>
> would it make sense to have RPROVIDES

dgawk and pgawk were debugging and profiling gawk frontends, and
whilst the new gawk binary has the same functionality it doesn't have
compatibility binaries.  So no, I don't think it's sensible to have
RPROVIDES in this case.

Ross



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