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On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 15:12 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I think allowing selection of this at image generation time is the more
> powerful way to handle this. It could be we go through a step of
> forcibly removing packages we don't want from the rootfs such as
> update-rc.d, or we can tell the package manager to ignore the dependency
> which is probably neater.
> 
> I have to admit the update-rc.d change was concerning and this does feel
> like a better way to handle it.

Yeah.  The downside to this is that it will require extra
package-manager-specific hackery in each of the rootfs backends, since
there isn't any portable way to either forcibly remove a package or to
get a dependency disregarded.  But I guess I can make it work for ipkg
easily enough and we can worry about the others later.

p.