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On Sunday 31 March 2013 01:59:52 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people |
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> want `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want |
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> `makeinfo`, they can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (<100 by |
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> a rough survey of random Gentoo installs). |
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people seem happy with this, so i'll have the release team do a test build and |
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see how it goes. there might be growing pains w/packages that lack a texinfo |
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dep (or is accidental), but i don't expect this to impact too many packages |
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(since the # generating info pages is small). |
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and to clarify, the status of the actual info pages being installed into |
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/usr/share/info/ will be unchanged. if you don't like those, you can always |
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FEATURES=noinfo. |
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-mike |
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