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On Sat, 2014-12-06 at 14:10 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > At some point you have to depend on the host system, be it perl, sh or
> > other things. The exact line should be configurable, Paul is simply
> > adding a mechanism here that allows us to control that. He's needed a
> > default and I think perl is API stable enough that we should be ok here.
> 
> I understand but the provided mechanism is ugly and hackish.
> 
> Maybe a mechanism like 'ASSUME_PROVIDED' could be made and use for
> this use-case. A dummy package looks like a workaround.

The mechanism needs to work at the package manager level, not at bitbake
since that is where the problem is. I'm not aware of mechanisms in any
of the package managers, let alone one common to all of them.

As Paul said, better ideas more than welcome.

Cheers,

Richard