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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> The bc utility is part of the posix tools and it might be used to build |
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> linux among the other stuff. |
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I'm fine with including useful utilities in the stage3s, as long as |
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they don't go into the system set. We really need to get beyond |
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equating the two. Otherwise our systems will become a jumble of stuff |
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that somebody finds useful for something, and then when we remove some |
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of it we'll get occasional breakage because nobody will declare them |
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as dependencies. That just isn't in the spirit of Gentoo. |
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The system set should only contain stuff that a large percentage of |
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the tree needs to depend on (let's say more than 20%), or which is |
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required to be available to bootstrap the rest of the tree. |
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Once mix-in-like support is available, then profiles can be a dumping |
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ground for anything anybody finds useful, and the more the merrier... |
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