sphinx: dev-manual: Clarify that virtual providers do not apply to runtime dependencies

Clarifies that virtual providers are only used for build time
dependencies specified with PROVIDES and DEPENDS, and do not apply to
runtime dependencies specified with RPROVIDES and RDEPENDS.

(From yocto-docs rev: dbca49573ce5c5c006c97f79d1107eafee83dc10)

Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <Joshua.Watt@garmin.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst
index 05060bb053..d3baa25162 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.rst
@@ -2242,6 +2242,12 @@ The following lists specific examples of virtual providers:
 
 -  ``virtual/libgles2``: Provides ``glesv2.pc`` (i.e. libGLESv2).
 
+.. note::
+
+   Virtual providers only apply to build time dependencies specified with
+   :term:`PROVIDES` and :term:`DEPENDS`. They do not apply to runtime
+   dependencies specified with :term:`RPROVIDES` and :term:`RDEPENDS`.
+
 Properly Versioning Pre-Release Recipes
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