On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 00:30 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible > > because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of > > the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses, > > readline, zlib, autoconf, automake and m4, perl, gnuconfig, and so > > on. Those are packages that certainly would be part of any base Gentoo > > system, but are those actual part of the system set of packages? I > > sincerely doubt it. > > What is your goal? Is there something you're trying to accomplish that's > impossible? It's clear that changing this would be a fair amount of > work, and I don't understand the benefits.
Come work on a Gentoo release some time. Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else. Almost all circular dependency issues we currently have are due to implicit dependencies. Also, several things have been added either to system or (more commonly) packages.build, to try to work around these deficiencies in the tree. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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