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| From: | Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set | ||
| Date: | Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:30:04 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20080108083000.GL14600@supernova | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set by flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=) | ||
| 1 | On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: |
| 2 | > Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible |
| 3 | > because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of |
| 4 | > the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses, |
| 5 | > readline, zlib, autoconf, automake and m4, perl, gnuconfig, and so |
| 6 | > on. Those are packages that certainly would be part of any base Gentoo |
| 7 | > system, but are those actual part of the system set of packages? I |
| 8 | > sincerely doubt it. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | What is your goal? Is there something you're trying to accomplish that's |
| 11 | impossible? It's clear that changing this would be a fair amount of |
| 12 | work, and I don't understand the benefits. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Thanks, |
| 15 | Donnie |
| 16 | -- |
| 17 | gentoo-dev@l.g.o mailing list |
| Subject | Author |
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| [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set | flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=) |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set | Stefan Hellermann <stefan@×××××××××××.de> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set | Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> |