Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/gzip madness

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 11:36, Lina Pezzella wrote:
> I would entirely agree on the second point there.  System for macos has 
> very few things installed (gzip not among them) because a lot is 
> provided by MacOS.  At this point in the game, where we are porting 
> Gentoo to non-Linux userlands, it is probably a bad idea to "assume" 
> much of anything.

Shouldn't anything provided by MacOS itself be considered part of
"system", since it would be there and is provided by the "system"
component, which in your case happens to be MacOS?

Also, if you notice, I corrected myself.  In my original post, I did not
mean that is how it should be done, but rather how it *is* done now in
practice.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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