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

[Dr. Michael Lauer]

Koen Kooi wrote:
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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?

Go for it.

Regards,

:M:
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