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dev-manual: Created new section to remove packaging requirements 

Fixes YOCTO #1706

Added a new subsection to the section that talks about making
a tiny system.  The subject matter fits in with reducing a
kernel image size.

(From yocto-docs rev: 51eb79b88794beaefcb88a4408714a88c9126b2b)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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</para>
</section>
<section id='remove-package-management-requirements'>
<title>Remove Package Management Requirements</title>
<para>
Packaging requirements add size to the kernel.
One way to reduce the size of the kernel is to remove all the
packaging requirements from the image.
This reduction includes removing the package manager as well
as its dependencies.
</para>
<para>
To eliminate all the packaging requirements for an image,
follow these steps:
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Put the following line in your main
recipe for the image to remove packaging files:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_packaging_data_files ;
</literallayout>
For example, the recipe for the
<filename>core-image-minimal</filename> image contains
this line.
You can also add the line to the
<filename>local.conf</filename> configuration file.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Be sure that "package-management" is not
part of your
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-IMAGE_FEATURES'><filename>IMAGE_FEATURES</filename></ulink>
statement for the image.
When you remove this feature, you are removing the
package manager as well as its dependencies
from the root filesystem.
</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</para>
</section>
<section id='look-for-other-ways-to-minimize-size'>
<title>Look for Other Ways to Minimize Size</title>