From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.pbcl.net ([88.198.119.4] helo=hetzner.pbcl.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TTD63-0002BP-FA for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:47:15 +0100 Received: from elite.brightsigndigital.co.uk ([81.142.160.137] helo=[172.30.1.145]) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TTCsr-0001hc-Ro; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:33:38 +0100 From: Phil Blundell To: "Burton, Ross" Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:33:36 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <508FA924.4030301@communistcode.co.uk> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2- Message-ID: <1351607617.13864.59.camel@phil-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: Removing netbase from an image X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 10:22 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote: > You don't want to remove netbase, you just want to remove the > /etc/network/interfaces file. The rest of netbase is very important > to have. Well, FSVO "very important". There's very little in there which is actually indispensible; /etc/hosts is probably the only file that I'd consider to be all that important, and arguably it's a libc bug that this one is necessary. I don't use netbase itself in any of my own images. p.