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From: Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: System packages in (R)DEPEND?
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:20:00
Message-Id: gd4cj7$1qp$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] System packages in (R)DEPEND? by Peter Volkov
1 Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > Jeremy Olexa ?????:
3 >> Thomas Sachau wrote:
4 >> > Should we depend on all system packages? Should we depend on some
5 >> > packages, because they could be removed? If yes, which ones? Or should
6 >> > we leave the system packages out completly?
7 >>
8 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221311
9 >>
10 >> Please provide reasons/justifications for the proposal of removing
11 >
12 > Our documentation, QA team insist that we should not depend on system
13 > packages and there are good reasons to do that. But still above bug
14 > clearly states different. Also if we consider perl and some other
15 > packages, they also could became target to be removed... But I'm not
16 > going to repeat discussion we already had recently:
17 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54035
18 >
19 > So yes, there is ambiguity and the question is valid. But since we had
20 > discussion recently I don't see what else we can discuss now.
21 >
22 Well according to [1] it should all be done in the profiles, and [2] seems
23 like a good way to accomplish a more effective split. Is there anything
24 which means portage can't simply move ahead with that?
25
26
27 [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54146
28 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2575