[yocto] why is "package-management" defined as a PACKAGE_GROUP?

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Robert,

On Sunday 17 November 2013 04:19:19 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   think i may have asked this once upon a time, but why, in
> core-image.bbclass, is there the line:
> 
>   PACKAGE_GROUP_package-management = "${ROOTFS_PKGMANAGE}"
> 
> as i read it, package-management doesn't represent an actual package
> group, but rather represents one of a number of IMAGE_FEATURES that
> are processed explicitly in a .bbclass file, like "debug-tweaks" or
> "read-only-rootfs". so what does the above line mean?

It's not a package group, but then neither are any of the things defined by 
PACKAGE_GROUP - that variable just specifies one or more packages to be 
installed when the specified item appears in IMAGE_FEATURES. Perhaps we should 
just rename the variable; it's a little more internal than some of the other 
variables we've renamed in the past.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre