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[11/34] ref-manual: add DEV_PKG_DEPENDENCY

Message ID b4ea0706196c9016f4ea88ce9f6364bc5587990e.1665392835.git.paul.eggleton@linux.microsoft.com
State New
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Series [01/34] migration-general: add section on using buildhistory | expand

Commit Message

Paul Eggleton Oct. 10, 2022, 9:23 a.m. UTC 
From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>

New variable in 4.1.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@microsoft.com>
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 documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 5 +++++
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index 7707f5a..ab39fa8 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -1812,6 +1812,11 @@  system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       :term:`DESCRIPTION` takes the value of the :term:`SUMMARY`
       variable.
 
+   :term:`DEV_PKG_DEPENDENCY`
+      Provides an easy way for recipes to disable or adjust the runtime
+      dependency (:term:`RDEPENDS`) of the ``${PN}-dev`` package on the main
+      (``${PN}``) package, particularly where the main package may be empty.
+
    :term:`DISABLE_STATIC`
       Used in order to disable static linking by default (in order to save
       space, since static libraries are often unused in embedded systems.)