Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/base: add app-alternatives/{awk,bzip2,gzip,sh,tar} to @system

[Sam James]

> On 28 Dec 2022, at 16:04, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
>
> - Before this commit, nothing pulls in app-alternatives/sh, so we're relying on
>  app-shells/bash handling /bin/sh as an orphaned symlink (which is one of the big
>  things we're trying to move away from).
>
> - Add in the others (app-alternatives/{awk,bzip2,gzip,tar}) to allow setup
>  via /etc/portage/package.use without adding these to @world manually,
>  this also lays the ground work for at some point removing specific implementations
>  in the future (after making sure ebuilds which need specific impls. depend on them).
>
> - Note that there's two exceptions:
>  1. app-alternaitves/yacc
>
>     No need to explicitly add into @system, because we previously had virtual/yacc
>     so it'll get pulled in by ebuild dependencies anyway.
>
>  2. app-alternatives/lex
>
>     We never had virtual/lex before and packages very often explicitly
>     depend on sys-devel/flex. But this isn't a big deal given it's very unlikely
>     that a user wants to try modify lex yet and reflex is still very new as an
>     option in Gentoo.
>
>     That is, as time goes on and we test more to ensure it works with any lex,
>     it'll get pulled in as various ebuilds get updated anyway.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886017
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886247
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@g.o>
> ---
> profiles/base/packages | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

FWIW, I'd like to push this today to avoid users having to deal
with the migration "twice" if they have eselect-sh installed,
given app-alternatives/* got stabled yesterday/early today.