Do not install the idle editor IDLE is the Python IDE built with the tkinter GUI toolkit. Since it's highly unlikely to ever be useful in an embedded Linux system generated by Buildroot, this patch simply disables the installation of idle and the related Python modules. It saves 800 KB-900 KB of installed .pyc files. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Index: b/Makefile.pre.in =================================================================== --- a/Makefile.pre.in +++ b/Makefile.pre.in @@ -967,7 +967,6 @@ json \ logging csv importlib wsgiref \ ctypes ctypes/macholib \ - idlelib idlelib/Icons \ distutils distutils/command \ multiprocessing multiprocessing/dummy \ unittest \ @@ -982,7 +981,6 @@ email/test email/test/data \ json/tests \ ctypes/test \ - idlelib/idle_test \ distutils/tests \ unittest/test Index: b/setup.py =================================================================== --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -2223,7 +2223,7 @@ import warnings warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",category=DeprecationWarning) - scripts = ['Tools/scripts/idle', 'Lib/smtpd.py'] + scripts = ['Lib/smtpd.py'] if not '--disable-pydoc' in sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS"): scripts += [ 'Tools/scripts/pydoc' ] if not '--disable-lib2to3' in sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS"):