Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-utils

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:54:42AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> sys-apps will no longer be there once we switched to profiles.
> We used the sys categories only for packages that we used for our
> minimum runtime system.
> All dependencies assume that all sys packages are installed.
> We change this now. I'm currently reworking dependencies so they assume
> all packages from sys-build are installed.
> (bad english).
> There is a list in the cvs tree called current-packages.build. All
> packges required for a minimum build system are
> listed there. (not all are commited, I'm still testing).
> I will upload a build-tarball in the next days.

Achim, I agree with everything you said except for one thing... I think
we should keep the sys-categories, but they should be like any other
category.  There's a definite need for sys-apps, sys-kernel and sys-libs;
however, sys-devel can disappear with no problem.

sys-apps: "system applications and tools (hardware/network configuration, etc.)"
sys-kernel: kernels
sys-libs: essential (or nearly essential) libraries.  glibc would go here, as
	would readline, as I don't see another good place for it.

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