[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH 1/2] Add some common packages for x86-64 target.

[Daniel Curran-Dickinson]

Hi,

On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 16:57 -0700, greearb at candelatech.com wrote: 
> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> 
> This should make x86-64 targets more useable out of the box.
> The assumption is that most x86-64 users have adequate storage,
> and those that do not can still config away the options they
> do not need.

Although I agree x86-64 is normally big, I'm not sure that it makes
sense to make the default install so different from other devices.  One
thing you might want to look is that patch series I've got as URFC's for
doing things like preferring full vs. busybox and see if you could
implement this as something that could be added via a single package
install (or from imagebuilder baked into the image by specifying a
single package).

I'm not sure that making big/extra/different stuff part of snapshot and
release images is a good idea (although including more drivers is
different IMO, because that is about hardware support out of the box,
rather than about different choices about what's in the OS (unlike full
bzip2, getopt, different busybox options, etc)).  I think the user should
consciously decide they're looking for something other than a standard
LEDE system.

Regards,

Daniel