From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-apps/texinfo vs @system
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:02:21 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kjbeu8$rt0$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201303310159.53246.vapier@gentoo.org>
On 31/03/2013 16:59, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> one option would be to make the makeinfo stuff into a USE flag so all the perl
> junk isn't pulled in by default. only the packages that actually generate
> info pages can DEPEND on that.
>
> it'd be simpler if we just dropped it altogether from @system. if people want
> `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages want `makeinfo`, they
> can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category (<100 by a rough survey of
> random Gentoo installs).
>
> obviously my preference is for the latter.
> -mike
>
Removing it from @system sounds good. I have no preference as to how
that is handled as long as the info pages are still available to those
that want them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-01 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-31 5:59 [gentoo-dev] sys-apps/texinfo vs @system Mike Frysinger
2013-03-31 9:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-03-31 10:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-31 22:08 ` Michael Mol
2013-04-01 18:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-03-31 21:42 ` [gentoo-dev] " Anthony G. Basile
2013-03-31 22:07 ` Doug Goldstein
2013-03-31 22:12 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-04-01 8:02 ` Michael Palimaka [this message]
2013-04-01 18:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-01 18:34 ` Rich Freeman
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