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Mike Frysinger posted on Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:59:52 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> it'd be simpler if we just dropped [texinfo] altogether from @system. |
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> if people want `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages |
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> want `makeinfo`, they can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category |
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> (<100 by a rough survey of random Gentoo installs). |
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Except... at least for those running build-systems, some of those <100 |
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pkgs with hard deps on texinfo include automake, autoconf, gcc, and |
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e2fsprogs, all of which are pretty core to a gentoo system, at least one |
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that builds anything. |
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Texinfo may be more practical to remove on binpkg-only systems, tho, |
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which might be what you had in mind, but if there was hint of that I |
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didn't catch it. |
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Or maybe your intent was to either kill these deps or put them behind |
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USE=doc as well? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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