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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 15:11 +0800, Zhenbo Gao wrote:
> connman get conflicts with networkmanager when building
> the project.
> 
> here introduce alias virtual/networkmanager for these
> two recipes, so setting PREFERRED_PROVIDER to the proper
> one can solve the conflicts.
> 
> this patch is for connman recipe.

We do not use the virtual/* namespace in package dependencies, only in
the build time DEPENDS/PROVIDES space. This is because there is no way
to indicate how the package manager should resolve such things amongst
many other reasons.

Cheers,

Richard