I see packages like bison, flex, perl or sed in the system set. And i also see ebuilds depending on them. I also heard from Peter Volkov (pva) that there where discussions about removing different packages from the system set. So now my question is: Should we depend on all system packages? Should we depend on some packages, because they could be removed? If yes, which ones? Or should we leave the system packages out completly? -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer