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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:22:28
Message-Id: 20080108202203.GA16575@seldon.sbcglobal.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set by flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
1 On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten?? wrote:
2 > "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > > Having a complete
5 > > deptree and having a small system package set should be independent
6 > > goals, maybe your proposal should focus on making possible to have a
7 > > deptree as complete as possible independently of what packages are on
8 > > system set.
9 >
10 > QA team already rejected such a proposal.
11
12 Don't suppose you have a url for their reasoning? Among other things,
13 system set can vary, thus resulting in horked dependencies.
14 Additionally, a more accurate dep details is useful for
15 parallelization hints- breaking the reliance on system set as much as
16 possible, and treating it more like a users world set is something
17 I've wanted for a long while.
18 ~brian

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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?=)