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On 31/03/2013 16:59, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> one option would be to make the makeinfo stuff into a USE flag so all the perl |
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> junk isn't pulled in by default. only the packages that actually generate |
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> info pages can DEPEND on that. |
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> it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people want |
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> `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want `makeinfo`, they |
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> can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (<100 by a rough survey of |
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> random Gentoo installs). |
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> obviously my preference is for the latter. |
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> -mike |
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Removing it from @system sounds good. I have no preference as to how |
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that is handled as long as the info pages are still available to those |
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that want them. |
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