[oe] preferred-provider at the image level a.k.a why is all this fso stuff in my non-fso image

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 13:24 -0500, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:12:34PM +0300, Sergey Lapin wrote:
> > I just need to mention we have same kind of problems with mplayer vs
> > mplayer-maemo recipe,
> > when you try to put e.g. mencoder into IMAGE_INSTALL, mplayer-maemo
> > recipe is used instead of mplayer one.
> > Also, which is weird, I was able to reproduce this lots of times on
> > one my setup even with build from scratch,
> > and was unable to do so with my another setup.
> 
> Sorry for my naive question, but why can't it be specified with
> 
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_mplayer = "mplayer"

That only sets the build-time preference.  It won't have any effect on
what happens at opkg run time if both binary packages are available.

p.