I'm talking about cross building an image, and flashing an entire image onto the target. This is the purpose of environments like yocto and buildroot. My prefe

I'm talking about cross building an image, and flashing an entire image onto the target. This is the purpose of environments like yocto and buildroot. My preference is to cross build packages for each application on my workstation, and maintain a local package repository from which individual packages are installed on the target. I find archlinux extremely useful in this configuration, because even if I'm not building on the target, the same package maintenance and other system commands are identical to my development workstation. Additionally, archlinux provides a well documented, and fairly simple process for hosting your own local repositories.