Option to trim packages

[Lloyd Parkes <Lloyd.Parkes%ird.govt.nz@localhost>]

Hi all,
I've noticed that some packages install lots of files for supporting software 
development that are not needed on most production servers. An example is 
databases/db4. My Solaris build of it contains 41MB of files, only 4.5MB of 
which is even usable at runtime. OpenSSL is similar, but smaller all round.

It seems to me that there is a class of package that provides libraries for 
other packages that could be trimmed somehow. I don't want to go down the Linux 
route of making people install a separate -devel package any time they want to 
do something useful, but I would like to give sysadmins the ability to build 
lightweight binary packages for deployment on production servers.

Would making parts of the PLIST work for this? Maybe add a variable to 
PLIST_VARS?

Cheers,
Lloyd