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On 18-04-09 01:57, Chuck Kamas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to use OE to build a rootfs plus busybox and a few i2c
> tools and that is about it.  What Distribution should I use as my base?
> Angstrom?

Yes.

> Angstrom seems to pull in lots of things that are not needed
> like Bluetooth.

That's not angstrom that's doing this, it's the image recipe. For 
example the kexecboot-image binary in angstrom is 80kilobytes in size 
for the armv5te architecture.

> Is there a better starting place?

No.

regards,

Koen