[HEADSUP] Staging, packaging and more

[Matthew X. Economou]

Bernhard Fröhlich writes:

> I also don't see why we need to optimize our packages for an embedded
> environment that is usually very customized. Wouldn't it make more
> sense to provide some proper port / packaging options/flags that help
> to optimize size of the packages without touching header files?
> People could use that flags and poudriere to build their packages
> together with all their other compiler flags and cpu optimisations.

Seconded.  We already have knobs like "NOPORTDOCS" and "NOPORTEXAMPLES" and "WITH_STATIC".  As a prospective embedded system builder, I'd be happy with adding something like "NOINCLUDES" or "NODEVELFILES".

Best wishes,
Matthew

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