[Libguestfs] [PATCH] appliance: exclude pkg-config, doc-base, and reportbug stuff

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 03:29:53PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> Exclude the arch-independent pkg-config files (no pkg-config available
> in the appliance).
> 
> Exclude also the doc-base and reportbug files, typically found in Debian
> systems.

ACK.

FWIW we used to go further and remove all perl* and python* packages.

Since supermin 5 / libguestfs 1.26 I stopped doing that, and the size
of the fixed appliance has grown by about half:

http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/

Not sure if we should fix that however.  It's possible that those
packages do something useful ...

Rich.

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