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[v3,1/3] doc: bitbake-user-manual-metadata: remove incorrect claim

Message ID 20260509104307.26698-2-bijak.dawid@gmail.com
State New
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Series doc: bitbake-user-manual-metadata: clarify inherit_defer documentation | expand

Commit Message

Dawid Bijak May 9, 2026, 10:43 a.m. UTC 
The documentation for inherit_defer contained the claim
"If VARNAME is going to be set, it needs to be set before the
inherit_defer statement is parsed"
which is incorrect and contradicts the purpose of inherit_defer.

Drop the incorrect statement.

Signed-off-by: Dawid Bijak <bijak.dawid@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
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 doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
index 40cae6b05..ee6919dc4 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.rst
@@ -829,9 +829,7 @@  Here is an example::
 
    inherit_defer ${VARNAME}
 
-If ``VARNAME`` is
-going to be set, it needs to be set before the ``inherit_defer`` statement is
-parsed. One way to achieve a conditional inherit in this case is to use
+One way to achieve a conditional inherit in this case is to use
 overrides::
 
    VARIABLE = ""