Bug 9491 - Enable explicit removal of support packages when not needed
Summary: Enable explicit removal of support packages when not needed
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ normal
Target Milestone: 2.2 M3
Assignee: Stephano Cetola
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Blocks: 9899
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Reported: 2016-04-19 22:32 UTC by Paul Eggleton
Modified: 2016-08-26 16:11 UTC (History)
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Description Paul Eggleton 2016-04-19 22:32:44 UTC 
Since http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=9c0186fd57fe6b8ed7b4de7645fdadfc2e5db149 , update-rc.d, base-passwd, shadow and update-alternatives won't be uninstalled from images not containing a package manager. That was a deliberate change, but there will be systems which genuinely do not need these packages and yet will now get them. It seems to me there ought to be a switch to remove them for those that don't need them.
Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2016-04-20 01:44:38 UTC 
I missed run-postinsts from the above package list.