On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Anthony G. Basile <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/05/14 16:08, Michał Górny wrote: >> >> Dnia 2014-09-05, o godz. 12:34:11 >> William Hubbs <[email protected]> napisał(a): >> >>> there is a bug open requesting that we add sys-apps/iproute2 to the >>> system set [1]. Originally the request was to drop net-tools, but it has >>> become just adding iproute2. >>> >>> If no one objects, I would like to do this sometime in the next 72 >>> hours by adding sys-apps/iproute2 to profiles/default/linux/packages. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> I object. We should be keeping towards making @system as small >> as possible, not adding random packages there just because someone >> happens to use them often. >> > > I don't like to say no when people want something, but I think here I'm with > Michal. My idea of @system is that it must be the bare minimum to have a > "working" system. And for a working system you need just enough toolchain, > networking and python to be able to bootstrap into whatever you want to > build from that point. We already have net-tools, so iproute2 is not > needed. > > Why can't you just emerge iproute2 from the stages we already have? >
You can, and I do... every time I unpack a stage3 tarball. Keeping @system minimal seems like a reasonable ideal though.
