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On 03/28/2013 11:10 AM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>> From: ChenQi
>>
>> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html
>> section 5.2 Customizing Images
>>
>> In your case, you could add the following line to local.conf.
>> IMAGE_INSTALL_append += "samba"
>>
>> And you can use 'bitbake -g <image_recipe_name>' to see
>> whether samba is pulled in.
>>
>> For all docs, see https://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation/current.
> Thanks for that pointer. I'll try that out.
>
> So is there a general way to peruse the collection of recipes? Does one have
> to do "ls -R *.bb" to get the list of recipes, then read the comments inside
> the files to see how to use them?
>
> And how does one know in advance which ones get included by default? Is
> there some construct one looks for in the .bb file that indicates it gets
> included? Or is there some master recipe that says "this depends upon this
> big long list of standard recipes"?
>
> And are any of the recipes that are included by default not actually
> required, and if so, how do you un-include them if you want to pare down the
> system to a bare minimum?
>
> Or is there some master documentation that I just haven't found that lists
> all the recipes in the Yocto project and gives some guidance on their use?
>
http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html
The above two manuals might be sufficient for understanding the recipes 
and performing common tasks.

//Chen Qi