From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:03:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0e9af74-4808-3bec-6d26-6c376d644721@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161025160138.1fd2268f@gentoo.org>
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On 10/25/2016 04:01 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400
> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a bunch of lines that are
>> commented out. For example,
>>
>> *sys-apps/which
>> #*sys-devel/autoconf
>> #*sys-devel/automake
>> *sys-devel/binutils
>> #*sys-devel/bison
>> #*sys-devel/flex
>> *sys-devel/gcc
>>
>> Does anyone know why those are commented as opposed to just.. not
>> there?
>
>
> Those used to be in @system and were dropped at some point once ebuilds
> had proper deps. My guess would be ppl wanted to keep them commented
> out just in case it appeared to be a bad idea to drop them and be able
> to "revert" easily. Nowadays, we can probably assume it was ok :)
>
Indeed, to avoid confusion I'd suggest cleaning it up unless base-system
or QA has any objections.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-25 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-25 0:43 [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set Michael Orlitzky
2016-10-25 14:01 ` Alexis Ballier
2016-10-25 14:03 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand [this message]
2016-10-25 14:11 ` Raymond Jennings
2016-10-25 14:16 ` Alexis Ballier
2016-10-25 15:05 ` Nick Vinson
2016-10-25 15:34 ` [gentoo-dev] need for autotools (was: Commented packages in the @system set) Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-25 15:35 ` [gentoo-dev] need for autotools Ian Stakenvicius
2016-10-25 15:41 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-10-25 15:47 ` [gentoo-dev] Commented packages in the @system set Mike Gilbert
2016-10-25 16:49 ` Michał Górny
2016-10-26 10:22 ` Raymond Jennings
2016-10-26 18:55 ` Peter Stuge
2016-10-25 16:27 ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-26 0:40 ` Benda Xu
2016-10-27 0:19 ` waltdnes
2016-10-27 1:10 ` Peter Stuge
2016-10-27 2:54 ` Walter Dnes
2016-10-27 3:14 ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-27 11:46 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-10-27 13:07 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-27 13:21 ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-27 14:41 ` Michael Mol
2016-10-27 15:22 ` Rich Freeman
2016-10-28 1:27 ` Kent Fredric
2016-10-28 1:49 ` Rich Freeman
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