From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:22:43 +1300
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On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 11:14:21 AM NZDT Philip Balister wrote:
> On 09/26/2017 03:59 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 1:16:19 AM NZDT Philip Balister wrote:
> >> Does the layer index let us search for recipes that depend on another
> >> recipe?
> > 
> > At the moment, no. I have explicitly not done anything with dependencies 
> > because they can be dependent on configuration (e.g. DISTRO_FEATURES, 
> > PACKAGECONFIG) and I haven't taken the time to figure out how to introspect 
> > and present such optional dependencies.
> 
> Thanks Paul. I was wondering since I suspect that over time, the
> question we are asking will become more important. We already ran into a
> similar issue with sip.

Right, the layer index really is the right place to be doing this. I've filed a
bug:

  https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12129
 
> Maybe it is time for oe-core-not-so-common-depends?

I'd think we'd want a bit more definition around what goes into such a layer,
that title is pretty vague.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre