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 1RVZvz-00024X-E5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:30:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4229721C093; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911F021C068 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.151.201.1] (staff-wireless.saddleback.edu [209.129.85.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 18C591B407A for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4ED59500.6020608@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:29:20 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111120 Thunderbird/8.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/zlib: punt from system in profiles References: <201111291509.35502.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 52812f3c-25aa-45c9-bda0-2f16e485a182 X-Archives-Hash: 357709442b6f1db217b9fcf608bac8c5 On 11/29/2011 06:14 PM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> we have USE=zlib 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. >> -mike > > 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. > > Are there any other cases? One nice thing about removing them from the system profile is that it allows for greater parallelization with emerge --jobs, since packages that's aren't in the system set don't trigger the code for bug 256616 [1] which limits parallelization as a safety precaution. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256616 -- Thanks, Zac