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doc: Clarify how task dependencies relate to RDEPENDS

Clarify that BitBake knows how to map entries defined in the runtime
dependency namespace back to build-time dependencies (recipes) in
which tasks are defined.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit caf422435ad64aacbdab8a94da3115599dd0938b)
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Jacob Kroon 4 years ago
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@@ -2526,6 +2526,9 @@
                 In the previous example, the <filename>do_packagedata</filename>
                 task of each item in <filename>RDEPENDS</filename> must have
                 completed before <filename>do_package_qa</filename> can execute.
+                Although <filename>RDEPENDS</filename> contains entries from the
+                runtime dependency namespace, BitBake knows how to map them back
+                to the build-time dependency namespace, in which the tasks are defined.
             </para>
         </section>