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>
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Joshua Watt authored and Richard Purdie committed 2020-09-17 10:09:35 +01:00
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@@ -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`.
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