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

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