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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:48:30
Message-Id: 1093283699.17304.31.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness by Lina Pezzella
1 On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 11:36, Lina Pezzella wrote:
2 > I would entirely agree on the second point there. System for macos has
3 > very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is
4 > provided by MacOS. At this point in the game, where we are porting
5 > Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume"
6 > much of anything.
7
8 Shouldn't anything provided by MacOS itself be considered part of
9 "system", since it would be there and is provided by the "system"
10 component, which in your case happens to be MacOS?
11
12 Also, if you notice, I corrected myself. In my original post, I did not
13 mean that is how it should be done, but rather how it *is* done now in
14 practice.
15
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17 Chris Gianelloni
18 Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
19 Games - Developer
20 Gentoo Linux
21
22 Is your power animal a penguin?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness Lina Pezzella <j4rg0n@g.o>