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Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball |
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has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't generate / |
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distribute a release tarball. |
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However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what |
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should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set as the set that |
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"contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux |
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installation to run properly". |
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That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc |
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should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be |
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100% correct). |
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-Nicholas Vinson |
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On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: |
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> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? |
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> |
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o |
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> <mailto:k_f@g.o>> wrote: |
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> On 10/25/2016 04:01 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400 |
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> > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o <mailto:mjo@g.o>> wrote: |
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> > |
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> >> Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a bunch of lines that are |
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> >> commented out. For example, |
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> >> |
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> >> *sys-apps/which |
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> >> #*sys-devel/autoconf |
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> >> #*sys-devel/automake |
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> >> *sys-devel/binutils |
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> >> #*sys-devel/bison |
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> >> #*sys-devel/flex |
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> >> *sys-devel/gcc |
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> >> |
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> >> Does anyone know why those are commented as opposed to just.. not |
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> >> there? |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Those used to be in @system and were dropped at some point once ebuilds |
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> > had proper deps. My guess would be ppl wanted to keep them commented |
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> > out just in case it appeared to be a bad idea to drop them and be able |
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> > to "revert" easily. Nowadays, we can probably assume it was ok :) |
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> > |
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> |
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> Indeed, to avoid confusion I'd suggest cleaning it up unless base-system |
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> or QA has any objections. |
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> -- |
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> Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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