> On 28 Dec 2022, at 16:04, Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> - Before this commit, nothing pulls in app-alternatives/sh, so we're relying
> on
> app-shells/bash handling /bin/sh as an orphaned symlink (which is one of the
> big
> things we're trying to move away from).
>
> - Add in the others (app-alternatives/{awk,bzip2,gzip,tar}) to allow setup
> via /etc/portage/package.use without adding these to @world manually,
> this also lays the ground work for at some point removing specific
> implementations
> in the future (after making sure ebuilds which need specific impls. depend
> on them).
>
> - Note that there's two exceptions:
> 1. app-alternaitves/yacc
>
> No need to explicitly add into @system, because we previously had
> virtual/yacc
> so it'll get pulled in by ebuild dependencies anyway.
>
> 2. app-alternatives/lex
>
> We never had virtual/lex before and packages very often explicitly
> depend on sys-devel/flex. But this isn't a big deal given it's very
> unlikely
> that a user wants to try modify lex yet and reflex is still very new as an
> option in Gentoo.
>
> That is, as time goes on and we test more to ensure it works with any lex,
> it'll get pulled in as various ebuilds get updated anyway.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886017
> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/886247
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <s...@gentoo.org>
> ---
> profiles/base/packages | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> FWIW, I'd like to push this today to avoid users having to deal with the migration "twice" if they have eselect-sh installed, given app-alternatives/* got stabled yesterday/early today.
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