Zac Medico posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:23:59 -0800 as excerpted:

> On 11/29/2011 08:51 PM, Duncan wrote:
>> Zac Medico posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:29:20 -0800 as excerpted:
>> 
>>> One nice thing about removing them from the system profile is that it
>>> allows for greater parallelization with emerge --jobs[.]
>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256616

>> Except, don't dependencies of system profile packages get the same
>> safety precaution applied [and such is zlib]?

> Well, maybe there's not much parallelization benefit for sys-libs/zlib.
> If it wasn't for implicit system dependencies, the system set and its
> dependencies wouldn't need this kind of special treatment.

Hmm... very good point, from a man that "oughta" know. =:^)

So while this one removal from @system isn't much, reducing @system over 
time both reduces the effective footprint of the problem, and encourages 
explicit dependencies in a way that both cuts down on the need for 
special @system treatment in the first place, and encourages further 
reductions to the system set.

The end result of that process sounds like something I can live with. =:^)

Thanks.

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