[oe] [Bug 4549] A number of xorg dev packages are uninstallable

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:06:57AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:

> [ This is all also available at
> http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4549 ]
> 
> A number of xorg dev packages (both literally -dev and util-macros) are
> uninstallable on the target.  The problem is that by default (with ipk)
> any given -dev package will depend on the main package, for example
> xproto-dev depends on xproto.  But in these packages case, there is no
> main package (no xproto).  The following patch fixes the issue.
> 
> This is important in the case of SDK users.

So, there's three ways to fix this:
- Fix these recipes to have RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
- Fix these recipes to build empty main packages.
- Fix package.bbclass to do the 1st option, automatically (not put the
  dependency in to start with).

How do we get going ahead with one of these?  I could take a stab at the
3rd option, with some hints.

-- 
Tom Rini