From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498FA138010 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:02:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E275FE0B33; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E41F1E0B29 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31ADC33DC1D for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:02:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.64 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.64 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.690, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.328, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wjPM8D0rG6lQ for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C36CA33DC20 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 08:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UMZhi-0005La-Ep for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:02:58 +0200 Received: from ppp118-209-187-22.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net ([118.209.187.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:02:58 +0200 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-187-22.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:02:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-apps/texinfo vs @system Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:02:21 +1100 Message-ID: References: <201303310159.53246.vapier@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-187-22.lns20.mel6.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: <201303310159.53246.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7c90fb92-a630-4440-97d8-d209dcd80046 X-Archives-Hash: 202a253889518936836d42c8e5edb446 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.