> On 7 Apr 2021, at 12:18, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 20:32 +0100, Sam James wrote: >> >>> >>> We usually don't add basic tools like grep to dependencies. >> >> Few points: >> >> ... > > 5) There are no clear rules about what @system packages can be left out > of *DEPEND and when, so their presence is wildly inconsistent.
Yes, this is the part I find difficult too. The important distinction here was *bootstrapping* (which I missed) but I think at least we should make a list of packages generally considered critical for bootstrap. The Prefix documentation and scripts as well as Catalyst will help here.
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