[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] xpext: Allow the main package to be empty.

[Moseley, Drew]

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 02:41:55PM -0400, Drew Moseley wrote:
>> If xpext is included in a build (ie via dependency on mpv) then
>> builds of core-image-sato-sdk will fail with errors such as below.
>> 
>> Allowing the package to be empty fixes this.
>> 
>>     warning: Can't install mpv-dev-0.15.0-r0 at i586: Can't install xpext-dev-1.0+5-r0 at i586: no package provides xpext = 1.0+5-r0
> 
> Isn't it better to disable this dependency from xpext-dev than to
> install completely useless empty image into the image?

Probably so.  Thanks for the suggestion.  Looks like:

	http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?h=d523cc183903fd0bc2e53af6af99a88ea1652e0d <http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/commit/?h=d523cc183903fd0bc2e53af6af99a88ea1652e0d>

is probably a similar solution.  I’ll submit an update.

Drew

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