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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Bob Phan spoke thusly: |
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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Yannick Koehler wrote: |
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> > Great, |
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> > at last, I have the answer I was looking for. I have not seen |
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> > etc-update because it's a package (gentoolkit) I didn't install because |
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> > I didn't need it. |
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> That brings up something interesting. Shouldn't gentoolkit be part of |
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> the system profile? I can't think of a single reason for someone to |
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> _not_ have it installed. etc-update and qpkg should be installed just |
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> as readily as emerge. A good 25% of the questions on this list have |
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> resulted in, "emerge gentoolkit". Any thoughts? |
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Perhaps a subset comprising qpkg and etc-update should be made into a |
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different package. If I recall correctly, emerge --pretend gentoolkit |
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showed that I needed a bunch of X etc dependancies (full memory |
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recall eludes me at the moment) which is not desired for a default |
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minimalist setup. |
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