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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 12:01:42 +0100
From: "Phil Blundell" <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@kernel.org>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH v4 1/3] introduce lib_subpackage
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:28:24PM +0000, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> This subclass allows us to easily split a recipe into
> subpackages.

"lib_subpackage" seems a slightly odd name for something that isn't
dealing with libraries.  What's the etymology of that?

> +    d.appendVar("PACKAGES", " " + " ".join(packages))
> +    d.appendVar("PROVIDES", " " + " ".join(packages))

It seems a bit strange to be putting the same things in PACKAGES and
PROVIDES.  Is that actually necessary?

p.