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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:05:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: [OE-core] why would ASSUME_PROVIDED recipes be built anyway?
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From: "Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
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Hi,

On Fri Apr 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[...]
>   this is definitely useful information to know but it might be a bit
> much to try to sneak into a reference entry. an alternative might be
> to add another subsection to the already 42 subsections in the dev
> tasks manual:
>
>   https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev-manual/index.html#

It's not really a development task.

How about a section in https://docs.yoctoproject.org/overview-manual/concep=
ts.html?

Antonin