> On 28 Dec 2022, at 16:27, Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>> 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.After discussion in #gentoo-pms, I'm going to push this with only the +s (i.e. keep gzip + bzip2 in @system for now), as PMS at least for gzip is clear it wants GNU gzip available, and it says "bzip2" must be as well. I'd like to revisit this another time and see about changing that if appropriate, but that's tangential to the reason I'm trying to do this quickly (minimising impact for users). I'll open a bug so we don't forget to do that revisiting.
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