On 16:27 Tue 14 Jun , Brian Harring wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:08:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > And no, I don't think that Gentoo should fully support reduced-@system > > builds, but there is no harm in making them more of a viable option. > > Personally... I think gentoo should aim for it actually. Question is > how close we can get to it w/out overly burdening developers.
Where this has been most useful for me is when I'm building out a minimal system (e.g., a diskless terminal or cluster node) using ROOT=/somewhere/else. It's nice to just start emerging stuff there instead of having to unpack a stage1 or something first. I wonder if we need another set that's really @base (truly minimal, like what Mike posted elsewhere), so @system would then serve as what we think is necessary for a running Gentoo installation. On a related note that would accomplish similar purposes, it would also be nice if we could somehow discriminate between DEPEND and RDEPEND for @system packages so build-only deps could be removed. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com
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