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From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: Undocumented Recipe Variables Script
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On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:12 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> I whipped up a script to find variables in recipes
> and determine if they have been documented. 
[...]
> ALTERNATIVE_LINK
> ALTERNATIVE_LINKS
> ALTERNATIVE_NAME
> ALTERNATIVE_PATH
> ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY

yet if I look at:

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-classes-update-alternatives

these ones are.

There is a lot of noise in that script but its probably worth a pass
over the output to hint as to what we need to document.

Cheers,

Richard