From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: split mtd-utils
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:17:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357751835.13022.103.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACW_hTbcpzGuQw3HfNc1bL+a7L6oGcJWfhE5=YKyXR6fwQeVfg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 17:12 +0100, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> As I am involved in embedded systems where flash is somewhat sparse
> I'm always eager to save a few bytes where possible.
>
> Today I noticed that mtd-utils (1.5.0 from danny) generates for my
> architecture (powerpc) roughly 780k of binaries in usr/sbin. 423k of
> it is due to ubifs related files.
>
> Would it be desired to put this in a separate package?
>
> e.g. mtd-utils-ubi and mtd-utils-nonubi with mtd-utils itself being
> empty but rdepend on those two?
> that way mtd-utils will still give all packages but those only wanting
> the non ubi stuff can limit themselves to that.
>
> If desired I can give this a stab.
Sounds like a sensible split to me...
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 16:12 split mtd-utils Frans Meulenbroeks
2013-01-09 17:17 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2013-01-10 14:56 ` Andrea Adami
2013-01-10 15:06 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2013-01-11 8:40 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2013-01-11 8:48 ` Eric Bénard
2013-01-11 8:57 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2013-01-21 11:21 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
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