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Zac Medico posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:29:20 -0800 as excerpted: |
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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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And a VERY nice benefit that is, too. =:^) |
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Except, don't dependencies of system profile packages get the same safety |
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precaution applied, and at the level we're talking here, zlib, etc, |
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aren't such packages going to almost certainly be dependencies of @system |
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on a normal system, even if they're not in @system itself? |
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If so, that's a relatively limited benefit in most cases. |
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Meanwhile, the better flexibility in terms of embedded is the benefit |
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that immediately comes to mind here. From what I've read, gentoo is |
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quite popular with embedded, and a lot of embedded folks go to a lot of |
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work to remove "unnecessary" packages from the system set. If it's |
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possible to do that at the general gentoo level without too much trouble |
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and without affecting general system target functionality, it's surely |
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going to save a lot of embedded folks a lot of duplicated effort, over |
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time. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |