[OE-core] [RFC] get minimal rootfs to be even smaller

[Saul Wold]

On 06/10/2013 07:06 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
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> On May 31, 2013, at 7:11 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin at juszkiewicz.com.pl> wrote:
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>> First hit: pci.ids.gz and usb.ids.gz ~350KB in total.
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> udev just RRECOMMENDS  usbutils-ids pciutils-ids so how did it get into build time dependencies to begin with ?
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I looked into this a while back and it's the fact that those packages 
are built, so they are seen and get installed.  If the packages aren't 
available they won't get installed.

Since pciutils and usbutils are both DEPENDS of udev, those get built 
and the packages get deployed and then are available to be installed at 
the behest of the RRECOMMENDS.

We could maybe have added BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS for core-image-minimal so 
that on a larger system udev would still have the -id files available, I 
just thought of this, not tested.

Sau!


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