Re: [Gumstix-users] Packages that can be removed?

[Torchris <chr...@ro...>]

Thanks, Steve,

I am happy with my pre-built image right now so I just did ipkg remove
command and it works fine. It didn't free up much of the precious 16 MB!
Would recompiling a new image free up more space?

regards,

Chris


Steve Sakoman wrote:
> 
> If you are building your own image the best way to handle this is to
> override com.gumstix.collection/conf/machine/gumstix-custom-verdex.conf
> and comment out the MACHINE_FEATURES for bluetooth and sound.
> 
> If you are using pre-built images you can accomplish basically the
> same thing by :
> 
> ipkg -force-depends remove task-base-gumstix-bluetooth
> ipkg -force-depends remove task-base-gumstix-sound
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Feb 19, 2008 7:14 PM, Torchris <chr...@ro...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I now have all the OE stuff working nicely and I am just looking to save
>> some space on the system image. Since I am not going to be using
>> Bluetooth
>> or sound immediately, is it safe to use ipkg to de-install the associated
>> packages (such as ALSA)? I just want to make sure this won't break
>> something
>> else.
>>
>> Are there any other obvious packages that may not be required? I am
>> runnign
>> the pre-built image that includes DirectFB.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Chris
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