Re: [gentoo-dev] removing dhcpcd from system???

[Stuart Stegall]

I'm no gentoo developer, but there are many packages that can optionally utilize programs that they do not and should not RDEPEND. 
A good example would be the CPAN.pm perl module (included in perl by default).  It allows you to configure it to use ftp, ncftp, 
lynx, and others as optional programs to download module files, this really isn't that different from what baselayout is doing with 
dhcp.  Portage's make.conf.example has lukemftp and proz as options to fetch files; distcc and ccache are portage FEATURES, but 
portage doesn't RDEPEND on them.

Armando Di Cianno wrote:

> On 2004-09-27 23:25:18 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
>
>> baselayout has a ton of other optional features, you going to require
>> every single package to be installed on a user's system just because
>> somewhere in the baselayout code that package is run ?  no, that user
>> will never use that package, so why should they have it installed ?
>
>
> I do understand what you're saying, I just (and maybe it's just for this
> version of baselayout I'm using) can't see how dhcpcd isn't an RDEPEND
> of baselayout per the files I descrbied above.  Baselayout, once
> installed, can be configured in such a way that it dies if dhcp is
> turned on.
>
> I guess this (dhcp or any other "hard-coded"-yet-optional function) just
> should be a USE flag or similar.  But I think we both understand what
> the other is saying, so I'll stop polluting everyone's mailboxen now. ;-)
>
> __armando
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