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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/zlib: punt from system in profiles
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:10:17
Message-Id: 201111301109.28915.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/zlib: punt from system in profiles by Zac Medico
1 On Wednesday 30 November 2011 01:23:59 Zac Medico wrote:
2 > If it wasn't for implicit system dependencies, the system set and its
3 > dependencies wouldn't need this kind of special treatment.
4
5 if it wasn't for implicit system dependencies, we'd have significant bloat in
6 the tree and circular deps out the wazoo
7
8 there's absolutely no reason every package should depend on sh, find, gawk, ls,
9 sed, grep, make, gcc, libc, as/ld
10
11 i wouldn't mind seeing gzip/bzip2/xz being auto calculated from SRC_URI ...
12 though it would make a system without any of those tricky to bootstrap, so
13 we'd have to pick at least one
14 -mike

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