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2010/1/24 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o>:
> The meaning of the system set is to have only the packages directly
> required to have a minimal functioning system. Having python by itself
> is not a requirement for that but having package management is.
You can't have functioning package management without the hard
dependencies it requires. So both portage and python should be in the
system set.
Cheers,
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Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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