Peter Volkov wrote: > Jeremy Olexa ?????: >> Thomas Sachau wrote: >> > Should we depend on all system packages? Should we depend on some >> > packages, because they could be removed? If yes, which ones? Or should >> > we leave the system packages out completly? >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221311 >> >> Please provide reasons/justifications for the proposal of removing > > Our documentation, QA team insist that we should not depend on system > packages and there are good reasons to do that. But still above bug > clearly states different. Also if we consider perl and some other > packages, they also could became target to be removed... But I'm not > going to repeat discussion we already had recently: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54035 > > So yes, there is ambiguity and the question is valid. But since we had > discussion recently I don't see what else we can discuss now. > Well according to [1] it should all be done in the profiles, and [2] seems like a good way to accomplish a more effective split. Is there anything which means portage can't simply move ahead with that?
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54146 [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2575
