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From: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>, 
	openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 12:29:33 +0000
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On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 11:20 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> It comes down to what setscene_depvalid() in sstate.bbclass returns.
> If
> that returns False a given dependency is installed, it if returns
> True,
> it is skipped and not installed.
> 
> Reading that function should give some clues as to the logic it
> applies. It operates not on a full task graph but on version
> collapsed
> only to sstate tasks.

Ah, right, thanks.  The particular piece of magic I was missing was:

            # Nothing need depend on libc-initial/gcc-cross-initial
            if "-initial" in taskdependees[task][0]:
                continue

which I think explains all the difficulties I was having.

p.