On Wednesday 18 January 2012 10:44:44 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:23 +0100 Agostino Sarubbo wrote: > >> 3) Check your rdepend, where is possible with scanelf[3] and if you > >> declare it, please, as you said, exclude gcc/glibc and all package > >> from @system > > > > imho this has nothing to do with stabilization, every single package > > should have these 2 points addressed. > > True, although unless I'm missing something I don't see the harm in > listing packages as (R)DEPENDS that are in @system. If anything this > would help to reduce churn down the road as we try to minimize the > system set. If including packages from @system does break things like > stage3s I'll rescind my remarks, but my impression is that all the > circular deps necessitated some level of hard-coding in the scripts > already...
it isn't just circular deps. it's also about breaking alternatives and useless bloat. adding "coreutils" to their depend because they execute `mv`, or "sed" because they execute `sed`, etc... is absolutely pointless. same goes for virtual/libc or virtual/os-headers. -mike
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