Mike Frysinger posted on Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:59:52 -0400 as excerpted: > it'd be simpler if we just dropped [texinfo] altogether from @system. > if people want `info`, they can `emerge` it themselves. if packages > want `makeinfo`, they can DEPEND on it -- few fall into this category > (<100 by a rough survey of random Gentoo installs).
Except... at least for those running build-systems, some of those <100 pkgs with hard deps on texinfo include automake, autoconf, gcc, and e2fsprogs, all of which are pretty core to a gentoo system, at least one that builds anything. Texinfo may be more practical to remove on binpkg-only systems, tho, which might be what you had in mind, but if there was hint of that I didn't catch it. Or maybe your intent was to either kill these deps or put them behind USE=doc as well? -- 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
