[yocto] Requesting information on some variables

[Burton, Ross]

On 18 October 2012 10:20, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> I don't know the relationship between "features" and "packages"...  maybe it
>> is a one-to-one relationship.
>
> It's definitely not 1-1, and sometimes a feature doesn't just control the
> installation of a package or packages, but influences how certain recipes are
> built, e.g. it might determine whether a particular configure option is
> specified within do_configure for a particular recipe.

A concrete example might help.  For example there is a "bluetooth"
machine feature that means bluez (the bluetooth daemon) is built and
added to the image, ConnMan enabled bluetooth support, and so on.

Ross