Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] mesa-demos: split info tools to a separate package

[Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>]

On 10/6/25 10:51 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On 06/10/2025 19:39, Ross Burton wrote:
>> On 6 Oct 2025, at 15:01, Quentin Schulz via lists.openembedded.org 
>> <quentin.schulz=cherry.de@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there really a dependency from demo applications on the various 
>>> info binaries?
>>>
>>> Can you justify this dependency?
>>>
>>> Otherwise this looks good to me.
>>
>> I’m not Dmitry, but I’d imagine so that if you install mesa-demos you 
>> get _all_ of mesa-demos, but you can just install mesa-demos-info for 
>> just the info tools if desired.
> 
> Exactly. The distros / users might be pulling mesa-demos and expecting 
> both kinds of apps. Let's not disappoint them.
> 

That's making mesa-demos kind of a meta package that pulls in everything 
built by the recipe and at the same time the only package bringing 
binaries other than the info ones.

Can you simply add this to the commit log/as a comment so that we can 
remove this RDEPENDS in the future if we want to without having to guess 
why it's there? It doesn't reflect an actual dependency but a personal 
preference.

We could also use RRECOMMENDS here to show it's even not required per-se 
but we think you probably want the info packages too.

Cheers,
Quentin