* [gentoo-dev] addition to system profile @ 2003-09-30 15:25 Andrew Gaffney 2003-10-01 15:39 ` Aron Griffis 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Andrew Gaffney @ 2003-09-30 15:25 UTC (permalink / raw To: Gentoo Dev I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I believe that gentoolkit should be added to the system profile. A good chunk of people's questions on -user are answered with "use 'qpkg this'" or "do 'epm that'". Instead of having to emerge it when you first need it, it would be nice if everyone had these utilities by default. -- Andrew Gaffney -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [gentoo-dev] addition to system profile 2003-09-30 15:25 [gentoo-dev] addition to system profile Andrew Gaffney @ 2003-10-01 15:39 ` Aron Griffis 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Aron Griffis @ 2003-10-01 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw To: Gentoo Dev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 639 bytes --] Andrew Gaffney wrote: [Tue Sep 30 2003, 11:25:09AM EDT] > I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I believe that > gentoolkit should be added to the system profile. A good chunk of > people's questions on -user are answered with "use 'qpkg this'" or "do > 'epm that'". Instead of having to emerge it when you first need it, it > would be nice if everyone had these utilities by default. It's not too hard to "emerge gentoolkit" and there are users that don't need these utilities installed, so there's no reason to put them in the system profile. Also, epm is currently maintained as a separate ebuild from gentoolkit. Aron [-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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