On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a bunch of lines that are > commented out. For example, > > *sys-apps/which > #*sys-devel/autoconf > #*sys-devel/automake > *sys-devel/binutils > #*sys-devel/bison > #*sys-devel/flex > *sys-devel/gcc > > Does anyone know why those are commented as opposed to just.. not > there? Those used to be in @system and were dropped at some point once ebuilds had proper deps. My guess would be ppl wanted to keep them commented out just in case it appeared to be a bad idea to drop them and be able to "revert" easily. Nowadays, we can probably assume it was ok :) Alexis.
