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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:41:17
Message-Id: 1199832055.8108.21.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 21:49 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Stefan Hellermann kirjoitti:
3 > > I've tried to not use the system-set and set up a virtual called
4 > > virtual/minimal-system which depends on all the packages I need (no gcc
5 > > or perl, only coreutils, glibc, baselayout and some packages that are
6 > > really needed for booting up). This is what I think should be the
7 > > system-set. And there would be a development-set which most people would
8 > > use, but don't have to. And maybe a set with packages like man, texinfo ...
9 > >
10 >
11 > Probably would be useful to separate DEPEND and RDEPEND base systems. So
12 > things like gcc would only be needed for the DEPEND part.
13
14 Be careful with this one. Lots of things end up linking with libstdc
15 ++.so.* from GCC.
16
17 --
18 Chris Gianelloni
19 Release Engineering Strategic Lead
20 Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
21 Games Developer/Foundation Trustee
22 Gentoo Foundation

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>