[OE-core] confused by task flags in base.bbclass

[Robert P. J. Day]

  confused ...

addtask install after do_compile
do_install[dirs] = "${D} ${B}"
# Remove and re-create ${D} so that is it guaranteed to be empty
do_install[cleandirs] = "${D}"

  what is the purpose of having "${D}" in both the first and second
line? i thought the "cleandirs" task flag would *already* guarantee
that D would exist and would be empty. so why does it need to be
referred to in both lines?

rday

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