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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 16:09 -0500, Alejandro Joya wrote:
> It provide a virtual reference for the common utilities.
> it replace of the lock to busybox, it will be simple exchange between other
> common utilities like gnu core utils or toybox among others.
> 
> In order to enable its required to fill at the distro conf or local.conf
>
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager ?= "busybox"
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/base-utils?= "busybox"
> PREFERRED_RPROVIDER_virtual/base-utils?= "busybox"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils?= "busybox"
> VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-hwclock ?= "busybox-hwclock"

As I understand it, you don't actually define defaults anywhere. This
means OE would break "out the box" which isn't acceptable and that alone
means I can't merge this.

Secondly, the virtual/xxx namespace is *only* for DEPENDS/PROVIDES, not
RDEPENDS or PACKAGE_INSTALL. For runtime packages, you need to use
${VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils}.

Cheers,

Richard