[yocto] so how does PACKAGECONFIG_remove really work?

[Burton, Ross]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 14:36, Aditya Tayade <Aditya.Tayade at kpit.com> wrote:
> Can any one please help me to understand PACKAGECONFIG_remove feature
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> Let's take an example of systemd recipe as follows:
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> PACKAGECONFIG ??= "vconsole"
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> PACKAGECONFIG[vconsole] = "-Dvconsole=true,-Dvconsole=false,,${PN}-vconsole-setup"
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> Now how should we disable features set in PACKAGECONFIG[vconsole] using PACKAGECONFIG_remove from it's bbappend file?

The _remove override removes a value from a variable. So this will
remove 'vconsole' from the value of PACKAGECONFIG:

PACKAGECONFIG_remove = "vconsole"

Ross