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authoraatir <aatrapps@gmail.com>2022-06-23 13:37:10 -0400
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2022-06-27 14:55:08 +0100
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docs: make DISTRO_FEATURES description more explicit
Make DISTRO_FEATURES description more explicit by specifying that DISTRO_FEATURES alone can't select build configurations, and need mechanisms like PACKAGECONFIG setup to take care of selecting build configurations. Signed-off-by Aatir Manzur <aatrapps@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> (From yocto-docs rev: 4b39a4434ee658512050c50f6ebd5ad5dc900fb1) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ packages, and they can go beyond simply controlling the installation of
100a package or packages. In most cases, the presence or absence of a 100a package or packages. In most cases, the presence or absence of a
101feature translates to the appropriate option supplied to the configure 101feature translates to the appropriate option supplied to the configure
102script during the :ref:`ref-tasks-configure` task for 102script during the :ref:`ref-tasks-configure` task for
103the recipes that optionally support the feature. 103the recipes that optionally support the feature. Appropriate options
104must be supplied, and enabling/disabling :term:`PACKAGECONFIG` for the
105concerned packages is one way of supplying such options.
104 106
105Some distro features are also machine features. These select features 107Some distro features are also machine features. These select features
106make sense to be controlled both at the machine and distribution 108make sense to be controlled both at the machine and distribution