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On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:44:44 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: |
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> >> 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you |
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> >> declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package |
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> >> from @system |
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> > |
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> > imho this has nothing to do with stabilization, every single package |
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> > should have these 2 points addressed. |
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> True, although unless I'm missing something I don't see the harm in |
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> listing packages as (R)DEPENDS that are in @system. If anything this |
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> would help to reduce churn down the road as we try to minimize the |
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> system set. If including packages from @system does break things like |
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> stage3s I'll rescind my remarks, but my impression is that all the |
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> circular deps necessitated some level of hard-coding in the scripts |
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> already... |
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it isn't just circular deps. it's also about breaking alternatives and |
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useless bloat. adding "coreutils" to their depend because they execute `mv`, |
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or "sed" because they execute `sed`, etc... is absolutely pointless. same |
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goes for virtual/libc or virtual/os-headers. |
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-mike |
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