On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 07:52 -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:53:15 +0000 > Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@infinera.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 02:52 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > > > Support -* in order to make it easier to create profiles for > > > minimal systems (especially those built entirely from binary > > > packages). > > > > Would be nice, but I don't get what the "packages" file is? > > > That would be the 'packages' file (list of required packages)that are > required for that specific profile. This patch would allow to > override that packages file to build an image that only contained the > minimum runtime pkgs required to perform the tasks it is suppose to. > The idea being you would not need gcc, automake, ... or even portage or > possibly python. The built image could of course be considered more > secure not having a compiler, etc... not to mention smaller.
Many of the packages files in /usr/portage/profiles already contain -* so I guess this must be another packages file? in /etc/portage or possibly /usr/portage/packges/ ? Jocke