On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 20:42 +0000, Diego Santa Cruz via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org <yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org> On > > Behalf Of Steve Sakoman via lists.yoctoproject.org > > Sent: 02 March 2021 21:06 > > To: Steve Sakoman <st...@sakoman.com> > > Cc: rustyhow...@gmail.com; Yocto (yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org) > > <yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org> > > Subject: Re: [yocto] Reducing the perl footprint on my image > > > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 10:01 AM Steve Sakoman via > > lists.yoctoproject.org <steve=sakoman....@lists.yoctoproject.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:26 AM <rustyhow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have an image that is using debian package management > > (PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_deb"). Because apt and dpkg require perl, > > perl is being installed in the image. No problem. Except that the entire > > perl > > stack is 669 packages. > > > > > > I just took a look at the manifest for one of my images that includes > > > PACKAGE_CLASSES = "package_deb". I see the perl package plus 43 > > > perl-module packages. Are you sure that something else in your images > > > isn't pulling in all of those other perl-module packages? > > > > It just occurred to me to make sure you are looking in the image > > manifest to see which packages are actually installed in your image. > > The perl recipe does generate 676 packages (in dunfell) so perhaps you > > might be looking at the generated packages rather than the installed > > packages?? > > > > I encountered a similar problem with package management enabled and rpm > as package format, where I also just install rpm for package management > and not all dnf stack. I get quite a lot of perl and python packages > into the image which are pulled by the rpm package, but they are only > needed for things like rpm-build, rpm-sign, etc., not for the bare > rpm command, which is the only one I need in the image. > > So I locally extended the rpm recipe to split those tools into rpm-build, > rpm-sign and rpm-archive and skip those packages in the image. I should > probably send patches for that to oe-core. Is that something that could > be accepted?
Not sure they need to go to separate packages but moving those three to some kind of "build" package would make a lot of sense to me at least. Cheers, Richard
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