On 01/24/2010 08:20 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
> 2010/1/24 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>:
>> On 01/24/2010 03:02 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
>>> You can't have functioning package management without the hard
>>> dependencies it requires. So both portage and python should be in the
>>> system set.
>>
>> Why should we keep redundant information in the list?
> 
> How is that redundant?
> 
> Cheers,

The problem the original poster wanted to solve is having a warning when
trying to unmerge something in "system". The best way here is to file a
Portage enhancement request and not pollute the profile system set
marking. The purpose of the packages file is to describe what needs to
be installed for a minimal system to work so it doesn't make sense to
pollute it with implementation details.

Regards,
Petteri