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From: Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:59:25
Message-Id: 1200059197.12879.15.camel@sapc154
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set by Mike Frysinger
1 On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:32 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thursday 10 January 2008, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:37 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
4 > > > Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else.
5 > > > Almost all circular dependency issues we currently have are due to
6 > > > implicit dependencies.
7 > >
8 > > Maybe OT (an idea in a very early state):
9 > >
10 > > For the implicit dependencies one could think of path-sandbox to help:
11 > >
12 > > Inform libsandbox which files are provided by packages both in *DEPEND
13 > > and the system package set, and let it completely deny access to
14 > > not-listed files.
15 > >
16 > > Or let it report any access to not-listed files to help finding the
17 > > implicit dependencies.
18 >
19 > it'd be quite some time before this would see implementation, but can you
20 > summarize the ideas and open a feature request in bugzilla please
21
22 done: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205312
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