From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:30:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108083000.GL14600@supernova> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24pdpyzge.fsf@gmail.com>
On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible
> because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of
> the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses,
> readline, zlib, autoconf, automake and m4, perl, gnuconfig, and so
> on. Those are packages that certainly would be part of any base Gentoo
> system, but are those actual part of the system set of packages? I
> sincerely doubt it.
What is your goal? Is there something you're trying to accomplish that's
impossible? It's clear that changing this would be a fair amount of
work, and I don't understand the benefits.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-07 23:42 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-01-08 1:02 ` Petteri Räty
2008-01-08 6:14 ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2008-01-08 8:30 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2008-01-08 11:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-01-08 12:20 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-01-08 12:37 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-01-08 20:22 ` Brian Harring
2008-01-08 20:35 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-01-08 16:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Stefan Hellermann
2008-01-08 19:49 ` Petteri Räty
2008-01-08 22:40 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-01-08 22:57 ` Petteri Räty
2008-01-08 22:37 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-01-10 15:42 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-01-10 19:15 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-01-10 19:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-11 13:46 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-01-09 20:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-09 21:13 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-01-09 21:42 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-09 22:12 ` Josh Saddler
2008-01-10 14:50 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-01-09 22:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Gianelloni
2008-01-09 23:32 ` Petteri Räty
2008-01-10 8:55 ` Rémi Cardona
2008-01-10 9:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-10 17:40 ` Marius Mauch
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