On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:41:54PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 06:14:06AM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:58:56 +0200 > > Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Judging from [1], a couple of thousands of ebuilds DEPEND on > > > sys-apps/sed, which is a system package (in profiles/base/packages) > > > since at least 2004. It boils down to some 2535 ebuilds, 1409 packages > > > and 14 eclasses, some requiring a version as high as 4.0.5, which went > > > stable in 2003. > > Since sys-apps/sed is a system package, I would vote for removing the > dependency from the ebuilds/eclasses.
The implicit system set dependency thing really, really needs to die; at the time of the rule, portage couldn't handle resolving graphs of that sort. PM resolvers for gentoo are generally a fair bit saner now thus doing what you're suggesting isn't really beneficial (frankly it causes some issues for stages, as zac noted). ~brian
