[oe] [meta-qt5] fix do_rootfs for images with dev-pkgs in IMAGE_FEATURES

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Sep 26 09:58:38 UTC 2013


On 26 September 2013 10:51, Jack Mitchell <ml at communistcode.co.uk> wrote:
> I ran into this problem the other day, and after speaking to Ross
> Burton, he suggested that the better way to fix this is with:
>
> RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
>
> I'm starting to get the feeling that the dev-pkgs feature is also a
> little broken, as it seems as though it doesn't handle cases where
> sub-packages are installed, but the main package is not.

Well, the problem is the default dependency on the main package in the
-dev package, which happens whether or not the main package even
exists.  That's why I prefer removing the dependency instead of
creating empty packages just for the bad dependency.

Ross



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