On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Michał Górny <[email protected]> wrote: > Even better, @system is basically stuff you don't want to depend > explicitly on or on which it is hard to depend on. As I see it, it > should be just the most basic stuff, like baselayout, shell, some basic > POSIX-defined utilities, some random stuff that PMS enforces, a C & C++ > compiler. > > As I see it, @system is already overburdened with random packages that > don't belong there. If we really feel like having to have something > else installed by default, why not just put it in default @world? >
++ The purpose of the system set is to deal with circular deps and the need to bootstrap. We shouldn't have stuff in there if it is possible to run without it. There are loads of things I can't live without which aren't in the system set. I have a default world file that I always start with anytime I do an install. If we ever get mix-ins worked out that would be another way to just have convenience sets of recommended software. -- Rich
