[poky] Image size explosion

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 10:29 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I just rebuilt my image after updating to the latest master and
> I observed image explosion (my mimimal image went from 3.9MB to
> 37MB!)  Looking at what went into the image, I see some packaging
> changes.  The package
>    libc6
> is now a bunch of packages
>    eglibc
>    eglibc-dev
>    eglibc-extra-nss
>    libcidn1
>    libgcc1
>    libgcc-s-dev
>    libthread-dbl
>    linux-libc-headers-dev
> which seem to be responsible for the bloat.
> 
> Questions:
> * What changed that now brings this in?
> * Can I get back to my old, minimal, setup?  This is for a deeply
>    embedded device and I don't need/want any development stuff.

When we split up the locale generation we broke eglibc. It sounds like
you're missing the fixes for that?

Assuming minimal stops pulling in eglibc-dev things should look
better...

Cheers,

Richard