doc: small snippet about operating system elements
Add a small documentation paragraph about the operating system elements, what they are required to provide (and thus what other elements can rely on). This makes DISTRO_NAME a prime-class variable, which can now be assumed to always exists (it was de-facto required so far). Change-Id: Iffbc69de0516b58bfde48e87cd73073428d66b05
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@ -134,7 +134,19 @@ Each element can use the following files to define or affect dependencies:
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on element B and element C includes element B in its "element-provides"
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file and A and C are included when building an image, then B is not used.
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Operating system elements
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Some elements define the base structure for an operating system -- for example,
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the ``opensuse`` element builds a base openSUSE system. Such elements have
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more requirements than the other elements:
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* they must have ``operating-system`` in their element-provides, so this
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indicates they are an "operating system".
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* they must export the ``DISTRO_NAME`` environment variable with the name
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of the distribution built, using an environment.d script. For example,
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the ``opensuse`` element exports ``DISTRO_NAME=opensuse``.
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Ramdisk Elements
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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