I am looking to selectively remove portions of 1or 2 components I will not be using from my running image

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From: yocto@... <yocto@...> On Behalf Of Leon Woestenberg
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To: Monsees, Steven C (US) <steven.monsees@...>
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Subject: Re: [yocto] bbappend usage

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Hello Steve,

Is the approach where you remove the recipes from the image an option?
Is there a reason why you want to build the recipes that you do not want to appear in your image?

Regards,

Leon.


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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 2:55 PM Monsees, Steven C (US) via lists.yoctoproject.org <steven.monsees=baesystems.com@...> wrote:
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> If I am building an image “image-ABC”, and it is composed of a number
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> Which is the best place to modify the build with bbappend ?
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> Would I modify a recipe’s do_install (do_install_append-recipe_xyz) ?, or would I modify the image recipe (do_install_append-image_ABC) I am leaning this way to avoid cases where the component recipes might have bbappends in place already ?
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> Looking for the proper Yocto way…
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