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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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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