Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v3] qemu: Add qemu-common package

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 17:39 +0800, Yu, Mingli wrote:
> On 7/19/23 17:24, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > 
> > > It is relevant, this is because of the dependency that this gets built
> > > and fails. I've seen v4 but didn't have the time to test it yet.
> > 
> > I've still not seen an answer to Ross' question or mine about why we
> > can't just add a couple of dependencies and resolve things that way.
> 
> Sorry for delayed respond!
> 
> Have added qemu-common to make qemu as meta package to keep backward 
> compatibility. For user who install qemu rpm such as 
> qemu-7.2.0-r0.corei7_64.rpm, it still pull in all of things as before. 
> For user who cares the rpm size, can just choose to install the needed 
> qemu arch rpms such as qemu-system-aarch64-7.2.0-r0.corei7_64.rpm.

So why not just add:

RRECOMMENDS:${PN} += "${PN}-system-all ${PN}-user-all"

as I think we've then covered all the options we need?

Cheers,

Richard