[gentoo-amd64] Re: Systemd migration: opinion and questions

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 23 May 2015 07:37:26 -0400 as excerpted:

> I'd actually like to see Gentoo evolve until we reach a point where this
> sort of thing is easy to do safely.  Right now @system is a mish-mash of
> a bunch of stuff and it is hard to pick out stuff like openssh which is
> trivially removable from stuff like openrc which has surprising reverse
> deps from stuff like glibc which obviously isn't going anywhere anytime
> soon.
> 
> I'd really like to see a few virtuals created (perhaps nesting) that
> chop this up into categories like recommend-default packages, stuff
> required for POSIX, and so on.  We can still give users a good default
> experience, and we can still avoid having ebuilds having to list out a
> laundry-list of deps, but we can also do things like allow more
> parallel-building and make it easier to remove stuff.

What about the new @profile vs @system stuff?  I don't believe I've seen 
anything move to @profile yet, tho I'm not /exactly/ sure what sort of 
indication I'd get, but in theory at least, @profile was supposed to at 
least avoid the parallel-build blockages that @system does for safety.

Anything practical come of the @profile/@system split yet?  It didn't 
turn out to be a bad solution to the problem did it?  Other opinions and/
or experience on/with it?

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman