On Tuesday 29 November 2011 21:14:49 Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > we have USE=zlib already which should cover automatically pulling in zlib > > when necessary, and we have that by default in make.conf. so there's no > > need to explicitly list zlib as part of the system target. so time to > > drop it. > > I don't object to this, but just to satisfy my curiosity, what are the > effects of removing, say, zlib or readline from the system profile? > It'd be very difficult if not impossible to construct a system without > these. The only effect I've noticed from changes like these are that > sometimes the packages will be depcleaned from stage3 tarballs if > nothing has them in RDEPEND.
another advantage: manual searches of packages linking against readline shows a bunch of packages lacking USE=readline control (which i've fixed up). hopefully people who dep clean this thing will notice and file bugs (we've had a few along those lines in the pass). -mike
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