Feature Request: Enable mining only when transactions are pending for Clique

[moritz-mbw]

Related to #225

Geth developer chain can be run with command --dev.period 0 in order to only mine blocks when transactions are pending.

It would be a great feature for geth clique to allow this behavior in private networks.
For example with the following setting in the genesis block:
config: { { "clique": "period": 0 } }

[lightclient]

I think you'd be more successful making an issue into the go-ethereum repo.

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