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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Handling of virtual/* namespace in packages
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:06:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192478818.25543.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4713AD5F.3040807@student.utwente.nl>

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Richard Purdie schreef:
> > So perhaps we should just standardise the existing xserver behaviour
> > into a dedicated namespace:
> > 
> > DEPENDS = "virtual/xserver"
> > RDEPENDS_xyz = "${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_xserver}"
> > 
> > and the machine.conf in this case would say
> > 
> > PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/xserver = "xserver-kdrive"
> > VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_xserver = "xserver-kdrive-fbdev"
> 
> We have the ${XSERVER} var for runtime selecting it:

Indeed. So what should we use for update-alternatives,
${UPDATE-ALTERNATIVES} ? My point was that this is going to keep biting
us and a dedicated namespace might make sense?

Cheers,

Richard




  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-15 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-15 12:19 [RFC] Handling of virtual/* namespace in packages Marcin Juszkiewicz
2007-10-15 14:35 ` pHilipp Zabel
2007-10-15 19:33   ` Richard Purdie
2007-10-15 14:53 ` Koen Kooi
2007-10-15 19:05   ` Richard Purdie
2007-10-15 16:10 ` Richard Purdie
2007-10-15 18:11   ` Koen Kooi
2007-10-15 20:06     ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2007-10-17  9:07       ` Koen Kooi
2007-10-17 10:47         ` Dr. Michael Lauer
2007-10-17 20:32           ` Koen Kooi

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