From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3OL3Ew0018907 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:03:14 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPoFh-0004Qd-Q7 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:02:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 23660 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2005 17:00:12 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 24 Apr 2005 17:00:12 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:04:16 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050422064651.GA7439@sympatico.ca> <20050424144556.A26350@leftmind.net> <5a67a16f05042413545f4cc7a2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5a67a16f05042413545f4cc7a2@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504241704.16092.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 78ac6c79-8662-4b90-848f-0d17b5613bf8 X-Archives-Hash: bbb11c59cf93cfe721dc5851a1312b48 On Sunday 24 April 2005 04:54 pm, Athul Acharya wrote: > > Possibly there should be a "tradunix" ebuild that pulls in all the > > traditional Unix stuff as dependencies (and is otherwise empty), and > > similarly for other sets of things people hold dear, just to act as > > macros when you're setting up a system. > > I think this is a spectacular idea. feel free to start a *new thread* (i.e. not just replying to an e-mail in this thread and changing the subject ;P) metapackages are simple to create ... people just need to hash out what they think should belong in it -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list