Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:32 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 10 January 2008, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:37 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else. > > > Almost all circular dependency issue

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 January 2008, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:37 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else. > > Almost all circular dependency issues we currently have are due to > > implicit dependencies. > > May

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-10 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Jan 10, 2008 4:42 PM, Michael Haubenwallner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the implicit dependencies one could think of path-sandbox to help: > > Inform libsandbox which files are provided by packages both in *DEPEND > and the system package set, and let it completely deny access to > not-li

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-10 Thread Marius Mauch
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:42:57 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: > I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our > ebuilds is vastly incomplete, as many lack dependency on zlib; trying > to get this fixed was impossible, as Donnie and other insisted that >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-10 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:37 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Implicit dependencies waste more time than pretty much anything else. Almost > all circular > dependency issues we currently have are due to implicit dependencies. Maybe OT (an idea in a very early state): For the implicit dependencie

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 January 2008, Rémi Cardona wrote: > With a quick glance at portage, I found at least those ssh implementations > : - openssh none of those are suitable replacements for openssh. > - ssh non-commercial only, not tested on all arches > - ossh only tested on x86, no idea on qua

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-10 Thread Rémi Cardona
Petteri Räty a écrit : I wouldn't say ssh is any more important than a dhcp client. +1 from me. With a quick glance at portage, I found at least those ssh implementations : - openssh - ssh - ossh - dropbear - ... (probably a few more whose name I couldn't find) This might even be worth

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Petteri Räty
Mike Frysinger kirjoitti: i'd argue pretty vehemently against removing openssh from any default official Gentoo install. ssh is defacto standard for loginning into any other machines. it should be on all Gentoo desktops/severs/etc... specialized/embedded/whatever are certainly free to cull

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 16:42 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Indeed. We ended up having to get perl into the stage1 because of > > exactly these problems. It sucks. I'd love to be able to remove perl > > (and anything else not necessarily required) out of the base system set. > > If they're requ

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Josh Saddler
Mike Frysinger wrote: >> Well, openssh has always been questionable. Sure, *I* think it should >> be on any Gentoo system I'd want to touch, but it really isn't necessary >> for a lot of people. Moving this to, say, the "server" profiles only >> would be acceptable to me, but then again, so is le

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:51 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible > > > because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of > > > the system package set. Right n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 15:51 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible > > because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of > > the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses, > > readline, zlib, aut

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 07 January 2008, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our ebuilds > is vastly incomplete, as many lack dependency on zlib; trying to get > this fixed was impossible, as Donnie and other insisted that as zlib was > in system, we sho

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Petteri Räty
Chris Gianelloni kirjoitti: On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 21:49 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: Stefan Hellermann kirjoitti: I've tried to not use the system-set and set up a virtual called virtual/minimal-system which depends on all the packages I need (no gcc or perl, only coreutils, glibc, baselayout an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 21:49 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Stefan Hellermann kirjoitti: > > I've tried to not use the system-set and set up a virtual called > > virtual/minimal-system which depends on all the packages I need (no gcc > > or perl, only coreutils, glibc, baselayout and some packages t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 00:30 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible > > because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of > > the system package set. Right n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Petteri Räty
Stefan Hellermann kirjoitti: I've tried to not use the system-set and set up a virtual called virtual/minimal-system which depends on all the packages I need (no gcc or perl, only coreutils, glibc, baselayout and some packages that are really needed for booting up). This is what I think should

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Stefan Hellermann
Donnie Berkholz schrieb: On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses, readl

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:42 Tue 08 Jan , Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Anyway, as having a complete dependency tree is almost impossible > because of that, I have an alternative proposal: reducing the size of > the system package set. Right now system contains stuff like ncurses, > readline, zlib, autoconf,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-07 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Tuesday 08 of January 2008 02:02:56 Petteri Räty wrote: > Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò kirjoitti: > > Here comes the official proposal, copy and paste from my blog with an > > extra post scriptum at the end. > > > > I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our ebuilds > > is vast

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-07 Thread Petteri Räty
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò kirjoitti: Here comes the official proposal, copy and paste from my blog with an extra post scriptum at the end. I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our ebuilds is vastly incomplete, as many lack dependency on zlib; trying to get this fixed was i

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reducing the size of the system package set

2008-01-07 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Here comes the official proposal, copy and paste from my blog with an extra post scriptum at the end. I already ranted about the fact that the dependency tree of our ebuilds is vastly incomplete, as many lack dependency on zlib; trying to get this fixed was impossible, as Donnie and other insiste