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[Paul D. DeRocco]

> From: Anders Darander
> 
> > So is there a general way to peruse the collection of 
> recipes? Does one have
> > to do "ls -R *.bb" to get the list of recipes, then read 
> the comments inside
> > the files to see how to use them?
> 
> No, the recipes themselves do not enforce their own 
> inclusions into your
> image. (That wouldn't really make sense, especially not when including
> such a large layer as meta-oe).
> 
> > And how does one know in advance which ones get included by 
> default? Is
> > there some construct one looks for in the .bb file that 
> indicates it gets
> > included? Or is there some master recipe that says "this 
> depends upon this
> > big long list of standard recipes"?
> 
> Which image are you building? 
> 
> Say that you're building core-image-sato, then you'll have to look at
> that recipe meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb. 
> 
> There you might find IMAGE_INSTALL, which defines what packages (and
> package groupds) this recipe wants to install. 
> 
> The recipes can also define IMAGE_FEATURES, which are used by the
> core-image.bbclass (which is inherited in the .bb-file), to 
> add a number
> of packages.
> 
> > And are any of the recipes that are included by default not actually
> > required, and if so, how do you un-include them if you want 
> to pare down the
> > system to a bare minimum?
> 
> Sure, there's likely some stuff in most images that you're not
> interested in. All the supplied images are there for some use-case, be
> it demoing stuff, test, etc.
> 
> If you want to customize an image more, I'd recommend you to 
> create your
> own image. A first step might be to just copy one of the image recipes
> to a layer of your own, and then modify it according to your taste.

Thanks. With everyone's help, the fog is gradually lifting.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com