[yocto] Removing a package from an image

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> I'm using one of the machines from meta-fsl-arm (i.MX6) which
> has this setting in the MACHINE.conf:
>   MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_append_mx6 = " imx-audio"
>
> While this is reasonable for most of these boards, I have one
> which has no audio and I'd like to leave this package (and all
> that it pulls with it) out of my images.
>
> I tried using this in my image recipe with no joy:
>   MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS := "${@oe_filter_out('imx-audio',
> '${MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS}', d)}"
>
> How can I "filter out" this extra/unwanted/setting?

you can use BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS variable to list packages that must be
filtered out during image creation. however BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS does
not work with all IMAGE_FSTYPES. I think it only works with ipk for
now.