[oe] [PATCH] Remove redundant dependencies upon opkg and opkg-collateral.

[Graham Gower]

On 7 August 2010 11:19, Chris Larson <clarson at kergoth.com> wrote:
>
> BOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_RDEPENDS is a remnant.  We wouldn't want them controlling it
> from there anyway.  The fact that I INHERIT package_ipk doesn't mean I'm
> constructing an ipk image, only that I'm *emitting* packages of that
> format.  IMAGE_PKGTYPE controls which rootfs_* bbclass will be used to
> construct the image, but that doesn't control which package *manager* for
> that type will be used, nor whether it should be installed at all
> (ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT).

Thanks, that does clear up how things are intended to behave. However
it doesn't reflect the reality of package_deb.bbclass and
package_ipk.bbclass, which both add their package managers to the
image unconditionally. i.e. using INHERIT="package_ipk" and
ONLINE_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT="none" will still get you an image with opkg
installed.

My intention here is to cut off some of opkg's tentacles in OE. I
expect more pruning will be required.

-Graham