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Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 23 May 2015 07:37:26 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> I'd actually like to see Gentoo evolve until we reach a point where this |
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> sort of thing is easy to do safely. Right now @system is a mish-mash of |
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> a bunch of stuff and it is hard to pick out stuff like openssh which is |
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> trivially removable from stuff like openrc which has surprising reverse |
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> deps from stuff like glibc which obviously isn't going anywhere anytime |
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> soon. |
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> I'd really like to see a few virtuals created (perhaps nesting) that |
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> chop this up into categories like recommend-default packages, stuff |
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> required for POSIX, and so on. We can still give users a good default |
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> experience, and we can still avoid having ebuilds having to list out a |
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> laundry-list of deps, but we can also do things like allow more |
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> parallel-building and make it easier to remove stuff. |
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What about the new @profile vs @system stuff? I don't believe I've seen |
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anything move to @profile yet, tho I'm not /exactly/ sure what sort of |
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indication I'd get, but in theory at least, @profile was supposed to at |
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least avoid the parallel-build blockages that @system does for safety. |
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Anything practical come of the @profile/@system split yet? It didn't |
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turn out to be a bad solution to the problem did it? Other opinions and/ |
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or experience on/with it? |
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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 |
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