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On Tuesday 29 November 2011 21:14:49 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 |
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> > when necessary, and we have that by default in make.conf. so there's no |
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> > need to explicitly list zlib as part of the system target. so time to |
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> > drop it. |
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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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another advantage: manual searches of packages linking against readline shows |
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a bunch of packages lacking USE=readline control (which i've fixed up). |
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hopefully people who dep clean this thing will notice and file bugs (we've had |
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a few along those lines in the pass). |
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-mike |
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