Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-02 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:21 AM, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote: > On 01/02/18 09:19 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: >> >> On 1 February 2018 at 14:17, Daniel F. Dickinson > > wrote: >> >> On 01/02/18 09:12 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: >> >> On 1 February 2018 at 14:10, Dani

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Daniel F. Dickinson
On 01/02/18 09:19 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 1 February 2018 at 14:17, Daniel F. Dickinson > wrote: On 01/02/18 09:12 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 1 February 2018 at 14:10, Daniel F. Dickinson mailto:csho...@thecshore.com>

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 February 2018 at 14:17, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote: > On 01/02/18 09:12 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > >> On 1 February 2018 at 14:10, Daniel F. Dickinson > > wrote: >> >> On 01/02/18 08:54 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: >> >> On 1 February 2018 at 13:44, Daniel

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Daniel F. Dickinson
On 01/02/18 09:12 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 1 February 2018 at 14:10, Daniel F. Dickinson > wrote: On 01/02/18 08:54 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 1 February 2018 at 13:44, Daniel F. Dickinson mailto:csho...@thecshore.com>

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 February 2018 at 14:10, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote: > On 01/02/18 08:54 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: > >> On 1 February 2018 at 13:44, Daniel F. Dickinson > > wrote: >> >> I guess the question is would it be useful to have a flag that chooses >> a 'typical' ti

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Daniel F. Dickinson
On 01/02/18 08:54 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 1 February 2018 at 13:44, Daniel F. Dickinson > wrote: I guess the question is would it be useful to have a flag that chooses a 'typical' tinyness but can be overridden (I'm think here of avoiding having to sp

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 February 2018 at 13:44, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote: > I guess the question is would it be useful to have a flag that chooses > a 'typical' tinyness but can be overridden (I'm think here of avoiding > having to specify huge numbers of PACKAGECONFIGs for a typical tiny case, > when really you w

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Daniel F. Dickinson
On 01/02/18 08:38 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: On 1 February 2018 at 12:55, Daniel F. Dickinson > wrote: I'm wondering if is doable and would be accepted to add a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE that automatically does PACKAGECONFIG += "tiny", and packages which honour

Re: [OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Burton, Ross
On 1 February 2018 at 12:55, Daniel F. Dickinson wrote: > I'm wondering if is doable and would be accepted to add a "tiny" > DISTRO_FEATURE that automatically does PACKAGECONFIG += "tiny", and > packages which honour this make choices that build smaller editions and/or > create smaller binary sub

[OE-core] Adding a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE and having packages build smaller

2018-02-01 Thread Daniel F. Dickinson
Hi all, I'm wondering if is doable and would be accepted to add a "tiny" DISTRO_FEATURE that automatically does PACKAGECONFIG += "tiny", and packages which honour this make choices that build smaller editions and/or create smaller binary sub-packages than default (i.e. things that can be split