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On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 14:02 -0500, Andrew Geissler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've been running into some flash space issues over in the openbmc
> project. I noticed the python.bb file (python_2.7.14.bb for us) is
> installing some test folders/files in our rootfs image.
> 
> # find /usr/lib/python2.7/ -name "test" -print
> /usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/test
> /usr/lib/python2.7/email/test
> 
> I'm looking to see if there's any functional reason these tests are
> included in the image.
> 
> In our compressed filesystem we're talking about ~150KB of space but
> right now that's a pretty big deal for us. Would the community be
> interested in a patch to not install (or make it an option like is
> done with INCLUDE_PYCS) these test files?  Or is this something we
> should just handle in a .bbappend file for our distro?
> 
> Here's a complete list of test directories in the python package.
> ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/bsddb/test
> ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/sqlite3/test
> ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/ctypes/test
> ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/unittest/test
> ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/lib-tk/test
> ./Python-2.7.14/Lib/email/test

These definitely sound like they should be put into a different package
which is related to testing and not installed otherwise. 

So yes, in principle these are exactly the kinds of fixes which should
be going into core!

Cheers,

Richard