Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving some packages around

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ryan Hill wrote:

> flameeyes@×××××.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote:

>> - bison and flex should get out of the system package set, what
>> clearer than moving them out of sys-*? They are not so commonly
>> used so there should no compelling reason to have them installed on
>> every system;

> both are required to build our toolchain.

A Lexical Analyser and a Parser Generator are also required by
IEEE Std 1003.1 (aka POSIX) as part of the C-Language Development
Utilities.

So it doesn't make much sense to remove flex and bison from system.

Ulrich
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