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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:57:23
Message-Id: 4783FFC7.2030603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti:
2 > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 21:49 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> Stefan Hellermann kirjoitti:
4 >>> I've tried to not use the system-set and set up a virtual called
5 >>> virtual/minimal-system which depends on all the packages I need (no gcc
6 >>> or perl, only coreutils, glibc, baselayout and some packages that are
7 >>> really needed for booting up). This is what I think should be the
8 >>> system-set. And there would be a development-set which most people would
9 >>> use, but don't have to. And maybe a set with packages like man, texinfo ...
10 >>>
11 >> Probably would be useful to separate DEPEND and RDEPEND base systems. So
12 >> things like gcc would only be needed for the DEPEND part.
13 >
14 > Be careful with this one. Lots of things end up linking with libstdc
15 > ++.so.* from GCC.
16 >
17
18 virtual/libstdc++ similar virtuals could exist for other gcc parts that
19 are needed at runtime.
20
21 Regards,
22 Petteri

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