Re: qt4-embedded - image size

["Eric Bénard" <eric@eukrea.com>]

Le Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:07:01 +0200,
Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org> a écrit :

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Eric Bénard <eric@eukrea.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nicolas,
> >
> > Le Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:10:15 +0200,
> > Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org> a écrit :
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:19 PM, John Stirling
> > > <ap.john.stirling@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > You suggest just cutting it down to
> > > >
> > > > IMAGE_INSTALL += " \
> > > > qtui \
> > > > "
> > > > and it should work itself out ?
> > > >
> >
> > this will work but if you need plugins they will be missing as only the
> > linked libraries will be automatically integrated.
> >
> > >
> > > hi, i have observed the same issue, and I used the following
> > 'workaround':
> > >
> > > BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS = " \
> > >     qt4-embedded-demos \
> > >     qt4-embedded-examples \
> > >     qt4-embedded-demos-doc \
> > >     qt4-embedded-tools \
> > >     qt4-embedded-assistant \
> > >     "
> > > which I added in my image recipe, that would ensure that the packages
> > which
> > > are RECOMMENDS don't get installed in the final image.
> > >
> > > I would be happy to use another (nicer?) method, too.
> >
> >
> > check packagegroup-core-qt4e.bb and remove :
> >         qt4-embedded-demos \
> >         qt4-embedded-examples \
> >         qt-demo-init \
> >         qt4-embedded-assistant \
> >
> > (and also the plugins & libs you may not need)
> >
> > FWIW I'm using this to build a quite full featured qt4e base image :
> > RDEPENDS_append += " \
> >         qt4-embedded \
> >         "
> >
> > QT_INSTALL = " \
> >         libqt-embedded3support4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedclucene4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedcore4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedgui4 \
> >         libqt-embeddednetwork4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedsvg4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedsql4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedxml4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedxmlpatterns4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedwebkit4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedscripttools4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedtest4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedmultimedia4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedhelp4 \
> >         libqt-embeddeddeclarative4 \
> >         libqt-embeddeddbus4 \
> >         libqt-embeddedphonon4 \
> >         \
> >         qt4-embedded-fonts-ttf-vera \
> >         qt4-embedded-fonts-ttf-dejavu \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-mousedriver-tslib \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-sqldriver-sqlite2 \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-sqldriver-sqlite \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-phonon-backend-gstreamer \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-iconengine-svgicon \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-imageformat-gif \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-imageformat-ico \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-imageformat-jpeg \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-imageformat-mng \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-imageformat-svg \
> >         qt4-embedded-plugin-imageformat-tiff \
> >         sqlite3 \
> > "
> >
> > QWT_INSTALL = " \
> >         qwt-e \
> > "
> >
> > IMAGE_INSTALL += "\
> >         ${QT_INSTALL} \
> >         ${QWT_INSTALL} \
> > "
> >
> > and I add this when I want the examples :
> > IMAGE_INSTALL += "\
> >         qt4-embedded-demos qt4-embedded-examples qt-demo-init \
> >         qwt-e-examples \
> > "
> > (qt-demo-init is a homemade init script).
> >
> 
> hi Eric,
> 
> thanks for your answer. so, yes I kind of figured out I could do that. But
> in fact I was hoping that re-using the existing packagegroup from oe-core
> *should* be the right thing to do, instead of re-implementing another one.
> and perhaps the packagegroup being called core-qt4e should be restricted to
> 'core' components, and we could have 1 (or more) additional packagegroups
> that could be pulled into images, instead? otherwise what's the point of
> having a 'core QT4e packagegroup' if it's not suitable for any real usage?

true, I'll cook & test a split of the packagegroup to make the examples
& demos optional

Eric