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First off, I'm going to ask that everyone please respond on gentoo-dev, |
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I am sending this to -core to try to catch everyone. |
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I am wanting to add dev-lang/perl to packages.build in default-linux. |
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Now, allow me to explain before you guys break out the torches and |
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pitchforks. The new current stable version of perl supports a "minimal" |
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and "build" USE flag that builds only the core perl. This is very |
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useful for us in creating a stage1 tarball, as it gives us a tiny (800K) |
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perl that resolves circular dependency problems with openssl<->perl. |
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The reason for adding it to packages.build is so it is available before |
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bootstrap, making it safe for any combination of USE flags. |
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I have tested this locally with not only a complete catalyst run, but |
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also using it to bootstrap with several different combinations of USE |
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flags. I was completely unable to produce any circular dependency |
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problems on x86, amd64, or ppc. |
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Anyway, if nobody has any objections to this, I'll be adding it on |
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Thursday. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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