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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps/texinfo vs @system
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:43:15
Message-Id: 5158ADBD.5090404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps/texinfo vs @system by Mike Frysinger
1 On 03/31/2013 01:59 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > personally, i've never found info pages usable.
3
4 ditto.
5
6 >
7 > it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people want
8 > `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want `makeinfo`, they
9 > can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (<100 by a rough survey of
10 > random Gentoo installs).
11 >
12 > obviously my preference is for the latter.
13 > -mike
14
15 i also prefer just dropping it altogether. same reasons. i suspect it
16 can also be removed from catalyst stage 2 which would clean up those runs.
17
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19 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
20 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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