Re: [gentoo-dev] reason for dhcpcd in system profile ?

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 16:14, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:04:29 +0200
> Marius Mauch <genone@genone.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > what's the reason for dhcpcd being in the system profile
> > (default-x86-1.4 at least, haven't checked the others)? If it's only
> > because it might be used in /etc/conf.d/net I think it should be
> > removed, as there are IMO many users who don't need/want dhcpcd on
> > their systems. I know there are a lot of people using dhcp for their
> > network config, but why should that impose it on people not using it
> > (e.g. I only need it on one of my three boxes)? 
> > Of course if I miss something obvious here please correct me.
> 
> Ok, it seems most people like dhcpcd being part of system. Then let me
> ask another question: Is there a way to get rid of packages in system
> that works with world upgrades without creating my own local profile?
> Making my own profile probably isn't difficult, but it needs to be
> maintained. And all I want is to get rid of 2 or 3 packages that I don't
> need/want to be installed.
> If there is no such way maybe it should be implemented, or is there a
> reason not to do it?
> 

The most permanent way I can think of, without updating stubs or
injecting packages all the time, is to create a stub in your portage
overlay that is a version way  bigger, say dhcpcd-10.0 and then
merge that ...


Cheers,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa



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