[OE-core] [PATCH V2 0/3] Dynamic common utilities

[Joya Cruz, Alejandro]

On vie, 2015-09-18 at 23:31 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 16:09 -0500, Alejandro Joya wrote:
> > It provide a virtual reference for the common utilities.
> > it replace of the lock to busybox, it will be simple exchange between other
> > common utilities like gnu core utils or toybox among others.
> > 
> > In order to enable its required to fill at the distro conf or local.conf
> >
> > VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager ?= "busybox"
> > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils?= "busybox"
> > PREFERRED_RPROVIDER_virtual/base-utils?= "busybox"
> > VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils?= "busybox"
> > VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-hwclock ?= "busybox-hwclock"
> 
> As I understand it, you don't actually define defaults anywhere. This
> means OE would break "out the box" which isn't acceptable and that alone
> means I can't merge this.
you are totally right, one of my doubts still is, where is the most
suitable place to  defined  this as single point?
> 
> Secondly, the virtual/xxx namespace is *only* for DEPENDS/PROVIDES, not
> RDEPENDS or PACKAGE_INSTALL. For runtime packages, you need to use
> ${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}.
> 
thanks I appreciated the correction.
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
>