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> On 7 Apr 2021, at 12:18, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 20:32 +0100, Sam James wrote: |
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>>> We usually don't add basic tools like grep to dependencies. |
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>> Few points: |
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> 5) There are no clear rules about what @system packages can be left out |
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> of *DEPEND and when, so their presence is wildly inconsistent. |
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Yes, this is the part I find difficult too. The important |
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distinction here was *bootstrapping* (which I missed) |
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but I think at least we should make a list of packages generally considered |
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critical for bootstrap. |
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The Prefix documentation and scripts as well as Catalyst |
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will help here. |
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