[oe] Finer granularity for RSUGGEST

[Koen Kooi]

Robert Schuster wrote:
> Henning Heinold schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> after fiddling with a filesystem kernel modul and his tools I noticed
>> in package_ipk.bbclass that if we set RSUGGESTS Variable the suggest field
>> in the ipk is set for all packages even -doc -dbg -dev and self defined
>> packages.  I personal
>> think is not a good choice and way. In my example the kernel module only needs
>> to suggest the tools package. And with the old method the tools package suggest
>> it self.
>>
>> I have prepared a patch for ipk and deb that let us set:
>>
>> ${PN}_RSUGGESTS = mooo
> I do not think this is a good idea. You can have the same effect just
> now by doing
>
> RSUGGEST_${PN} = "mooo"
>
> Currently if you set a variable that affects the binary package you know
> it will end up in all of the binary packages declared in PACKAGES. E.g.
> MAINTAINER, DESCRIPTION, LICENSE and so on.
>
> You can easily prevent this by doing:
>
> PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-data"

Not related to Hennings point, put overwriting PACKAGES the way pictured 
about will break out nice -dev and -dbg dependency changing (among other 
things). Only overwrite PACKAGES if you fully understand the 
consequences, which I think no OE developer that isn't called 'RP" does :)

regards,

Koen


>
> LICENSE = "GPLv2"
> LICENSE_${PN}-data = "CC-BY-SA"
>
> Or am I missing an important point here?
>
> Regards
> Robert
>
>
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