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 1RVZiV-00060z-H0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:16:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6526121C042; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A3221C022 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7CAE01B407A for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywm19 with SMTP id 19so154894ywm.40 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:15:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.31.167 with SMTP id b7mr2773908pbi.57.1322619311226; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:15:11 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.68.47.231 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:14:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201111291509.35502.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <201111291509.35502.vapier@gentoo.org> From: Matt Turner Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:14:49 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/zlib: punt from system in profiles To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7be0233c-6fd1-472d-b9a2-e24e0614d393 X-Archives-Hash: e37dfd87501807b49982f4f23ec36e9e On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > we have USE=3Dzlib already which should cover automatically pulling in zl= ib when > necessary, and we have that by default in make.conf. =A0so there's no nee= d to > explicitly list zlib as part of the system target. =A0so 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? Matt