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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:11:31
Message-Id: 1201719880.21440.101.camel@workbox.quova.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ? by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 10:32 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > That nothing that you've said counters the package not being needed in
3 > the system target. In fact, the packages that you list all explicitly
4 > depend on debianutils, so they wouldn't break if we removed it from
5 > system. The problem is packages which require debianutils but do *not*
6 > depend on it, because it's in "system" now.
7
8 I'm running a stage build with debianutils removed from system. I'll
9 let everyone know the results. If it works, I'll do the same for a
10 LiveDVD build, which covers most of the major packages in the tree.
11 Sure, there might be a few stragglers after that, but I doubt that there
12 would be too many.
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15 Chris Gianelloni
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