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On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:33 +0000, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
> I found that in package.bbclass when generating the -locale packages, it sets RPROVIDES to provide the virtual packages <locale>-translation,
>   d.setVar('RPROVIDES_' + pkg, '%s-locale %s-translation' % (pn, ln))
> 
> This would result different real packages provide the same <locale>-translation, i.e. eglibc-locale-ca and glib-2.0-locale-ca will both RPROVIDES ca-translation, even though they contain different messages.
> 
> Is it desirable or should we remove the <locale>-translation in RPROVIDES?

Yes, that is the intended behaviour.  This is necessary to support
dynamically installed language packs.

p.