[yocto] Trimming images

[Gary Thomas]

On 2017-02-09 15:35, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
> On 9 February 2017 at 14:33, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
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>         usbutils depends on hwdb as it's mostly useless without it.  Maybe this is the cause?
>
>
>     I'm sure it is (and it's a recent change, 2017-02-02, while I was on holiday)
>
>     Is there some way to disable this, certainly in a case where I
>     don't care about the device database?
>
>
> Two options:
> 1) don't install usbutils
> 2) send a patch to change the depends to a recommends

Yes, that worked - patch to come soon.

Is it possible to make this "image" specific?  I have some ramdisk
based images as well as full fledged "disk" images and I really only
care about the size issues for the ramdisk ones.  Is there a way to
say "for my ramdisk image, leave this out, for everything else, it's OK"?

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