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

[Koen Kooi]

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Richard Purdie schreef:
> 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?

I'd say we copy the VIRTUAL-RUNTIME (note the OEDEM hyphen :) ) from poky for kdrive and
u-a. Any objections?

regards,

Koen
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