From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RValY-00041A-Ky for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:23:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6752621C09D; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F235321C03B for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66FA31B407B for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:22:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/zlib: punt from system in profiles Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:22:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.0; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201111291509.35502.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1611215.IL8SLUQedR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201111292222.33877.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 23bf6b3f-b1c1-40a0-9de9-f6d4ab32b90d X-Archives-Hash: 0f0e0957f022ef8cc452b5eaa400a4aa --nextPart1611215.IL8SLUQedR Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 29 November 2011 21:14:49 Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > we have USE=3Dzlib already which should cover automatically pulling in = zlib > > when necessary, and we have that by default in make.conf. so there's no > > need to explicitly list zlib as part of the system target. so time to > > drop it. >=20 > I don't object to this, but just to satisfy my curiosity, what are the > effects of removing, say, zlib or readline from the system profile? > It'd be very difficult if not impossible to construct a system without > these. The only effect I've noticed from changes like these are that > sometimes the packages will be depcleaned from stage3 tarballs if > nothing has them in RDEPEND. you should be able to USE=3D'-readline -zlib' and, for the most part, not h= ave=20 them get used. certainly for readline, almost nothing in the core (or much= of=20 the tree) uses it -- if we ignore bash because it bundles a copy of readlin= e. i also want to keep it simple for slimmed down systems, and to keep the "co= re"=20 set as small as possible for older systems during upgrade paths. =2Dmike --nextPart1611215.IL8SLUQedR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJO1aF5AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBTXQP/iXej1SoTTJDJMicLeWvWArt tNl1euxo52gG7XM3Ib+10jl+HbxR1KgZyqt12RA6zBSykjAR5cNWA1INPRz2LXqq sIsNoIJ2OBzIxaQQSTshjpfTIpgYCLA0HMu5HP+KMDEiljPXuViLgzndllRpk/P/ UYOSY/WpFcFpDs1wBvMFr0A3ac+txkixME4KumfcJbrdWOADbgfpgGOZlbdya/4M g38Vp6ReEWw65MX3oqYnLM9fyO32PCoQ6caec5XB033kP5jR1JtWCBSqyiV8SMBj xVtig/9f0bR2c4keeSv9QtOLbSvyJ2pyOH4JQJsbNjznqEXkWidb4Kc/Oq21mSAy NhWP08S9tvYVglzHrzDKj+tdeiFcMuhLykODcfbQtxj5MV9ULjoneNexCjMhRkor 39kCXVuaEqeR9qGlaUueo402BytSRiniV/8DedB1XGJXR9wj/asw8FLb+kThUWE9 +BJQI/pvCqM8SoxPy16+R25KN4nsiVPJ2Ia2UrLPjBsZ/VFBQ5uCPH1l0PNfje3N oVL8Y/25qVpRf78tecSvTmwa/XMWIL/LzN2fWrUd55T64f6XfFRoxWE6EnbLckyC vk+6buyYvMOlk3u9YVls7C6s9HAoE4UoCRSrz/wqZZytpVYWwi/6vcXtUoCEuQBk dCcGYDeMBwByqJ1ZdqD7 =BWEO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1611215.IL8SLUQedR--