On Friday 05 September 2014 12:34:11 William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > there is a bug open requesting that we add sys-apps/iproute2 to the > system set [1]. Originally the request was to drop net-tools, but it has > become just adding iproute2.
I wouldn't mind either option - net-tools has been deprecated for a decade, but if we still ship it as default it will be used. Some people seem to think that stage3 is bloated - last time I looked at it there was lots of really-not-needed stuff like two python interpreters. If you want to de-bloat work on that, the extra 150kB or whatever of iproute2 are so small that it's barely noticeable. And by the same reasoning of "bloat" we should remove openssh ( and maybe even rsync ;) ) because it's not strictly needed - so maybe we want a "minimal" and a "useful" stage3 ? Have fun, Patrick
