[oe] RDEPENDS_${PN} overwrites RDEPENDS_foo - bug or feature?

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:04 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> While verifying all aspects of proposed udev change, I experienced a
> strange behavior of an udev recipe with RDEPENDS_udev:
> 
> RDEPENDS_udev is always ignored. Searching in deep, I found that
> RDEPENDS_${PN} defined in update-rc.d.bbclass overwrites RDEPENDS_udev.
> 
> Once RDEPENDS_${PN} is defined, RDEPENDS_udev has no effect.
> 
> Is it a bug or documented feature?

Possibly neither of the above.  It's not a bug, but I'm not certain that
it is very well documented either.

p.