Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sys-apps/iproute2 to the @system set

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote:
> On 09/05/14 16:08, Michał Górny wrote:
>>
>> Dnia 2014-09-05, o godz. 12:34:11
>> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> napisał(a):
>>
>>> there is a bug open requesting that we add sys-apps/iproute2 to the
>>> system set [1]. Originally the request was to drop net-tools, but it has
>>> become just adding iproute2.
>>>
>>> If no one objects, I would like to do this sometime in the next 72
>>> hours by adding sys-apps/iproute2 to profiles/default/linux/packages.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> I object. We should be keeping towards making @system as small
>> as possible, not adding random packages there just because someone
>> happens to use them often.
>>
>
> I don't like to say no when people want something, but I think here I'm with
> Michal.  My idea of @system is that it must be the bare minimum to have a
> "working" system.  And for a working system you need just enough toolchain,
> networking and python to be able to bootstrap into whatever you want to
> build from that point.  We already have net-tools, so iproute2 is not
> needed.
>
> Why can't you just emerge iproute2 from the stages we already have?
>

You can, and I do... every time I unpack a stage3 tarball.

Keeping @system minimal seems like a reasonable ideal though.