2009/10/12 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@terra.es>
But there's one... That what the "system" set is about in first place. We
could argue if creating a new category would be any good or not, that's a
different issue. But there's already a list of packages that's considered
critical for a Gentoo system. That's what "system" is, and you will get a
big red waning when trying to uninstall one package belonging to this
category.
Seeing as we understand @system to be "critical for a functional Gentoo system", the phrase "critical packages" may have been poorly chosen for communicating the concept of "things that, should I be cavalier in playing with them, may leave me with a system that is incapable of playing again without intervention from one of those lovely LiveCD things".
Nevertheless, there is a class of "packages that I need to watch out for, because they'll make my life miserable in ways X can only dream about and THEN stab me in the kidneys with a rusty javelin if I'm not careful" under discussion that could probably use some action. It's unfortunate that there's no good way of encoding arbitrary semantic metadata about a small set of packages such that it can be leveraged by various sources to achieve this end...
Regards,
Wyatt