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On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> [snip empty @system approach] |
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> Wow, that's certainly an interesting approach! It's definitely not for me, |
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> though. While I appreciate the control Gentoo gives me, I don't need *that* |
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> kind of control. |
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I'd actually like to see Gentoo evolve until we reach a point where |
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this sort of thing is easy to do safely. Right now @system is a |
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mish-mash of a bunch of stuff and it is hard to pick out stuff like |
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openssh which is trivially removable from stuff like openrc which has |
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surprising reverse deps from stuff like glibc which obviously isn't |
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going anywhere anytime 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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