Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposed changes to base profile for Gentoo/ALT

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
> I would have some other changes for virtuals, but they are less important 
> right now.

it depends on the changes ... i'm more likely to tell you to just override 
them in your own tree :P

> Obviously if this is going to be applied the missing packages should be added 
> to the packages of default-linux and other linux profiles that does inherit 
> from base.

linux-based profiles should inherit default-linux rather than base anyways ...

> -*app-arch/tar

put '-*app-arch/tar' into your packages

> -*net-misc/iputils

OK to move to default-linux

> -*sys-apps/coreutils

same as tar

> -*sys-apps/debianutils

OK to move to default-linux

> -*sys-apps/findutils

same as tar

> -*sys-apps/man-pages
> -*sys-apps/net-tools
> -*sys-apps/kbd

OK to move to default-linux

> -*sys-process/procps

err, this isnt linux specific ... it is ported to other systems (like FreeBSD)

> -*sys-process/psmisc

OK to move to default-linux

> -*sys-apps/shadow

this should be prob turned into a virtual instead

> -*sys-apps/which

this isnt linux-specific

> -*sys-fs/e2fsprogs

this should be prob turned into a virtual instead

> -*sys-libs/cracklib

we can prob punt this since shadow has a hard dep on it anyways ...

> -*virtual/modutils

FreeBSD doesnt support kernel modules ?
-mike

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