Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 23 May 2015 07:37:26 -0400 as excerpted: > I'd actually like to see Gentoo evolve until we reach a point where this > sort of thing is easy to do safely. Right now @system is a mish-mash of > a bunch of stuff and it is hard to pick out stuff like openssh which is > trivially removable from stuff like openrc which has surprising reverse > deps from stuff like glibc which obviously isn't going anywhere anytime > soon. > > I'd really like to see a few virtuals created (perhaps nesting) that > chop this up into categories like recommend-default packages, stuff > required for POSIX, and so on. We can still give users a good default > experience, and we can still avoid having ebuilds having to list out a > laundry-list of deps, but we can also do things like allow more > parallel-building and make it easier to remove stuff.
What about the new @profile vs @system stuff? I don't believe I've seen anything move to @profile yet, tho I'm not /exactly/ sure what sort of indication I'd get, but in theory at least, @profile was supposed to at least avoid the parallel-build blockages that @system does for safety. Anything practical come of the @profile/@system split yet? It didn't turn out to be a bad solution to the problem did it? Other opinions and/ or experience on/with it? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
