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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] System packages in (R)DEPEND?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:34:37
Message-Id: 90b936c0810131234y76217ae2o6a7b37068ebd918e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] System packages in (R)DEPEND? by Thomas Sachau
1 On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote:
2 > I see packages like bison, flex, perl or sed in the system set. And i also see ebuilds depending on
3 > them. I also heard from Peter Volkov (pva) that there where discussions about removing different
4 > packages from the system set. So now my question is:
5 >
6 > Should we depend on all system packages? Should we depend on some packages, because they could be
7 > removed? If yes, which ones? Or should we leave the system packages out completly?
8
9 In my quick 30 seconds of searching I found at least one bug on this
10 very issue. You may find more if you look for them. ;)
11
12 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221311
13
14 Please provide reasons/justifications for the proposal of removing
15 packages from the system set or from the ebuilds instead of just
16 raising random questions (which end up with no results and hence just
17 "noise").
18
19 -Jeremy

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Re: [gentoo-dev] System packages in (R)DEPEND? Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>