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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:29:39
Message-Id: 4EDE6CC2.7080302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles by Mike Frysinger
1 On 12/06/2011 10:04 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > what might be interesting is if we had a "Gentoo default" set which is what
3 > would come in a stage3 rather than the current "stage3 is the system set".
4 > then we could move virtual/ssh out of the system set and into the "Gentoo
5 > default" set so it'd be easier for people to drop/etc... but i'm not familiar
6 > enough with the portage support atm to say how feasible such an idea would be.
7
8 Similar to how we use packages.build to define the stage1 set, we could
9 add a packages.default to define the stage3 set. Alternatively, we could
10 use a meta-package to pull in the defaults, and adjust the stage3 build
11 to pull in that meta-package automatically.
12 --
13 Thanks,
14 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>