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+# python-pytest installs /usr/bin/pytest for both python2 and python3,
+# which causes a bitbake QA failure.  Remove it from installation for the
+# native target to avoid the collision.
+#
+# We don't currently use this as a target package and if we did, we shouldn't
+# install both python2 and python3 variants.
+#
+# Once we are done with python2, we can delete this.
+
+do_install_append_class-native() {
+    rm ${D}${bindir}/py.test
+    rm ${D}${bindir}/pytest
+}