Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps/texinfo vs @system
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:12:37
Message-Id: 5158B4C3.2050401@flameeyes.eu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps/texinfo vs @system by Mike Frysinger
1 On 31/03/2013 07:59, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people want
3 > `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want `makeinfo`, they
4 > can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (<100 by a rough survey of
5 > random Gentoo installs).
6
7 As long as we keep installing info pages by default (and poke upstream
8 with a clue-by-four if they do not distribute them in the first place),
9 I'm happy to have it nuked from @system.
10
11 --
12 Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
13 flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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