Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps/texinfo vs @system

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday 31 March 2013 01:59:52 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system.  if people
> want `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves.  if packages want
> `makeinfo`, they can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (<100 by
> a rough survey of random Gentoo installs).

people seem happy with this, so i'll have the release team do a test build and 
see how it goes.  there might be growing pains w/packages that lack a texinfo 
dep (or is accidental), but i don't expect this to impact too many packages 
(since the # generating info pages is small).

and to clarify, the status of the actual info pages being installed into 
/usr/share/info/ will be unchanged.  if you don't like those, you can always 
FEATURES=noinfo.
-mike

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