From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JC9qW-0007Xv-MA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:30:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFBC0E0A84; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964A4E0A84 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226AB65489 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:30:00 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set Message-ID: <20080108083000.GL14600@supernova> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d199896e-012d-4183-a6bb-21a525a13db5 X-Archives-Hash: c0a4ccb188c239239512dc591c4a9157 On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 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=20 impossible? It's clear that changing this would be a fair amount of=20 work, and I don't understand the benefits. Thanks, Donnie --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list