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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:04:00
Message-Id: a0e9af74-4808-3bec-6d26-6c376d644721@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set by Alexis Ballier
1 On 10/25/2016 04:01 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2 > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400
3 > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a bunch of lines that are
6 >> commented out. For example,
7 >>
8 >> *sys-apps/which
9 >> #*sys-devel/autoconf
10 >> #*sys-devel/automake
11 >> *sys-devel/binutils
12 >> #*sys-devel/bison
13 >> #*sys-devel/flex
14 >> *sys-devel/gcc
15 >>
16 >> Does anyone know why those are commented as opposed to just.. not
17 >> there?
18 >
19 >
20 > Those used to be in @system and were dropped at some point once ebuilds
21 > had proper deps. My guess would be ppl wanted to keep them commented
22 > out just in case it appeared to be a bad idea to drop them and be able
23 > to "revert" easily. Nowadays, we can probably assume it was ok :)
24 >
25
26 Indeed, to avoid confusion I'd suggest cleaning it up unless base-system
27 or QA has any objections.
28
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30 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>