On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
OE-Classic already has one packaging split: PACKAGES =+ "mkfs-jffs2 mkfs-ubifs Recently I faced this same issue: for ubiattach we have to install full mtd-utils (>700KiB) FYI there is a recipe for ubi-utils-klibc for more extreme size optimization. http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-initramfs/recipes-devtools/mtd Cheers Andrea _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
