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On 11/29/2011 06:14 PM, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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>> we have USE=zlib already which should cover automatically pulling in zlib when |
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>> necessary, and we have that by default in make.conf. so there's no need to |
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>> explicitly list zlib as part of the system target. so time to drop it. |
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>> -mike |
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> I don't object to this, but just to satisfy my curiosity, what are the |
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> effects of removing, say, zlib or readline from the system profile? |
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> It'd be very difficult if not impossible to construct a system without |
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> these. The only effect I've noticed from changes like these are that |
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> sometimes the packages will be depcleaned from stage3 tarballs if |
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> nothing has them in RDEPEND. |
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> Are there any other cases? |
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One nice thing about removing them from the system profile is that it |
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allows for greater parallelization with emerge --jobs, since packages |
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that's aren't in the system set don't trigger the code for bug 256616 |
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[1] which limits parallelization as a safety precaution. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256616 |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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