Why is task-base-wifi/bluetooth unconditionally included?

Matt Darland mdarland at pager.net
Fri Aug 29 20:52:44 UTC 2008


I meant its added to the PACKAGES (not RDEPENDS) of task-base unconditionally.
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Thanks

On Friday 29 August 2008 03:51:02 pm you wrote:
> RDEPENDS_task-base unconditionally brings in task-base-wifi and
> task-base-bluetooth regardless of machine/distro settings, etc. This
> requires kernels to be built with wireless extensions (because madwifi
> package insists on it), even if the device has no wireless capability.
>
> There is an anonymous python function in task-base.bb that looks like it
> will intelligently include the right task-base-wifi/bluetooth based on
> machine/distro settings.
>
> Is there a reason why this was unconditionally added to task-base RDEPENDS?
> If I take it out in my local overlay will something subtle break?
>
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