[oe] [RFC] Handling of virtual/* namespace in packages

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Richard Purdie schreef:
> > So perhaps we should just standardise the existing xserver behaviour
> > into a dedicated namespace:
> > 
> > DEPENDS = "virtual/xserver"
> > RDEPENDS_xyz = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_xserver}"
> > 
> > and the machine.conf in this case would say
> > 
> > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/xserver = "xserver-kdrive"
> > VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_xserver = "xserver-kdrive-fbdev"
> 
> We have the ${XSERVER} var for runtime selecting it:

Indeed. So what should we use for update-alternatives,
${UPDATE-ALTERNATIVES} ? My point was that this is going to keep biting
us and a dedicated namespace might make sense?

Cheers,

Richard