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On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 00:30 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
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> > Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible |
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> > because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of |
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> > the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses, |
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> > readline, zlib, autoconf, automake and m4, perl, gnuconfig, and so |
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> > on. Those are packages that certainly would be part of any base Gentoo |
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> > system, but are those actual part of the system set of packages? I |
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> > sincerely doubt it. |
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> |
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> What is your goal? Is there something you're trying to accomplish that's |
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> impossible? It's clear that changing this would be a fair amount of |
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> work, and I don't understand the benefits. |
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Come work on a Gentoo release some time. Implicit dependencies waste |
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more time than pretty much anything else. Almost all circular |
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dependency issues we currently have are due to implicit dependencies. |
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Also, several things have been added either to system or (more commonly) |
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packages.build, to try to work around these deficiencies in the tree. |
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