On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 08:05:55AM -0700, Nick Vinson wrote > Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball > has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't generate / > distribute a release tarball. > > However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what > should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set as the set that > "contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux > installation to run properly". > > That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc > should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be > 100% correct).
A binary distro can get by without gcc. For that matter, so could a Gentoo "snapshot". But my definition of "run properly" includes being able to update software for new features and security fixes. For a build-from-source distro like Gentoo, gcc and associated tools are a vital part of the distro. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
