On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:31:16PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote: > May I suggest an alternative? We could implement sys-virtual/posix and > make it depend on all packages that are not necessary for @system, but > are necessary for proper POSIX compliance. Then we can tell users who > need/want an environment containing all tools specified by POSIX, such > as those not using sys-kernel/*-sources, to `emerge virtual/posix`. I like this idea, for a virtual/posix; would let us trim a lot of other things from some environments.
In a similar vein, would releng be open to moving stage1/2/3 package sets to virtual packages or package sets? Presently they are inside catalyst, and I think this would clean things up a lot. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
