Zac Medico posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:23:59 -0800 as excerpted: > On 11/29/2011 08:51 PM, Duncan wrote: >> Zac Medico posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:29:20 -0800 as excerpted: >> >>> One nice thing about removing them from the system profile is that it >>> allows for greater parallelization with emerge --jobs[.] >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256616
>> Except, don't dependencies of system profile packages get the same >> safety precaution applied [and such is zlib]? > Well, maybe there's not much parallelization benefit for sys-libs/zlib. > If it wasn't for implicit system dependencies, the system set and its > dependencies wouldn't need this kind of special treatment. Hmm... very good point, from a man that "oughta" know. =:^) So while this one removal from @system isn't much, reducing @system over time both reduces the effective footprint of the problem, and encourages explicit dependencies in a way that both cuts down on the need for special @system treatment in the first place, and encourages further reductions to the system set. The end result of that process sounds like something I can live with. =:^) Thanks. -- 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
