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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:23:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: should all RDEPENDS always have an attached package name?
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On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 09:11 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   according to yocto ref manual, all uses of RDEPENDS should be
> suffixed with a package name (normally, _${PN}, of course), but i just
> noticed that the buildtools-tarball.bb recipe file contains:
> 
>   RDEPENDS = "${TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK}"
> 
> i suspect that still works just fine, but it does disagree with the
> rather adamant admonition in the ref manual.

The buildtools-tarball doesn't have any packages so in this particular
case, it is acceptable (and accepted by bitbake and the QA tests).

Cheers,

Richard