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

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 08:22 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
>> > Er, don't RRECOMMENDS always go into the build dependency list?
>>
>> if they do then whats the difference between DEPENDS and RRECOMMENDS
>> functionally.
>
> RDEPENDS are required and the package manager will insist they are
> always installed.  RRECOMMENDS are optional; you can uninstall them
> after the fact, and you can (with some package managers at least)
> declare them to be BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS which will be ignored.
>

yeah now I see the code build is going to build RRECOMMENDS automatically hmm.
Do BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS work with rpm ?

>> since now rrecommended packages will always be available and they will
>> always make into images.
>
> You say "now", but as far as I know it has always been thus.  If it
> wasn't then the set of packages that get installed in the image would
> depend on what things you happened to have lying around in your deploy
> directory, which would not be a very good thing.
>
> p.
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