[yocto] are there any more obvious candidates for ASSUME_PROVIDED?

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   asked about this once upon a time ... are there any other
> possibilities for adding to ASSUME_PROVIDED in local.conf.sample,
> given that there are surely more native utilities that are fairly safe
> by now?
>
>   for example, it's still weird that current default ASSUME_PROVIDED
> includes bzip2 but not gzip, especially since the quick start guide:
>
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html
>
> lists *both* of them as required on your build host.
>
>   it also seems odd that that list includes git but not subversion.
> anyway, you get the idea.

may times utilities have bugs or undesired behavior for OE so this
list is dynamic and sometimes
not all distro carry a certain version which OE expects and there are
ABI/format changes as it happened between svn 1.6 and 1.7

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