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Pete Gavin wrote: |
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> Why is fbset in dev-utils? |
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There was no suitable other category for fbset. |
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> I don't see what it has to |
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> do w/ development. Maybe sys-apps? |
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sys-apps will no longer be there once we switched to profiles. |
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We used the sys categories only for packages that we used for our |
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minimum runtime system. |
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All dependencies assume that all sys packages are installed. |
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We change this now. I'm currently reworking dependencies so they assume |
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all packages from sys-build are installed. |
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(bad english). |
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There is a list in the cvs tree called current-packages.build. All |
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packges required for a minimum build system are |
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listed there. (not all are commited, I'm still testing). |
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I will upload a build-tarball in the next days. |
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We make this move to be able to build profiles without development |
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tools. There should be no runtime dependencies |
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to build packages. |
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The build stuff can be linked statically, which should make it easier |
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for other people to port gentoo-linux to other platforms or to build |
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gentoo on top of an other distribution. (simply unpack the build-tarball |
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to a temporary location and chroot there). |
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If statically linked the environment requires about 130MB (dynamically |
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100MB). |
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The other thing I'm working on is adding more USE flags, so people are |
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able to build an Xfree free system or a system |
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without using berkdb..... |
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All these things need much time and I think I'm finaly finished in a |
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month or so. But then we should have a real cool |
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generic meta-distribution. That's why I'm always abit seceptik if you |
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want to move packages between categories |
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and stuff like that. |
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We want to put the build tarball on an cd together with the portage |
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tree and the distfiles. This makes it possible |
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to build everything from cd for your desired target with your own |
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USE and OPT flags. |
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achim~ |
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> And shouldnt guile be in dev-lang, since it's technically just an |
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> interpreter, like python or perl? |
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Yes. |
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> Pete |
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achim~ |
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