[yocto] Remove unwanted package from Qt

[Jon Szymaniak]

>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am compiling Qt-4.8.0 with poky-denzil-7.0 for arm1136 architecture.
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>> At the time of integrating qt-embedded with rootfs, I am getting qtopia
>> directory in usr/share path of rootfs.
>>
>> I tried removing qtopia directory through qt recipe but ended in
>> compilation error. Please suggest any idea to remove qtopia from share
>> directory.
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>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>>
>> Navani Kamal Srivastava
>
> I ran into this as well after using a bbappend to disable a number of
> Qt features, including the building of demos that get staged in the
> aforementioned path.  In my case, that qtopia directory (and any
> subdirectories) wound up either being empty or containing files that
> were unnecessary for my build.
>
> My quick and dirty solution was to just to add a install_append()
> containing a 'rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/qtopia' in my bbappend. (Be sure
> you don't have anything important in there!) I'd be curious to hear if
> there's a better approach to this as well...
>
> Regards,
> Jon

Oops...just wanted to note the typo in my above response -- I'm not at
a machine where I have access to my recipes.

That should be a do_install_append(), not install_append().  I'd also
double check the qtopia path, as I wrote that from memory, which may
not be reliable. ;)

Apologies,
Jon