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Subject: Re: dev manual section on "customizing images" needs serious adjustment
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On 08/23/2012 01:13 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22/08/12 21:37, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> One way to get additional software into an image is to create a
>> custom image.
>
> The manual should make it clear that this is *the* canonical way to add
> software to your images. Modifications to local.conf are temporary
> tweaks for testing/debugging (i.e., you should never feel the need to
> commit your local.conf to some project version control system).
>
> Tomas

+1. If you add additional packages to core-image-minimal in your 
local.conf, you're no longer really building core-image-minimal.

Scott

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