On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > iputils is currently in @system for everyone. by default, it only > installs `ping`. do we feel strongly enough about this to require > all systems include it ? or should this wait for the long idea of > releasing stage4's instead of stage3's ?
IMO this should certainly be installed by default, but it should also not be a part of the @system set unless portage depends on it or something like that. Thus this should probably wait until we start releasing stage4s. The fact that everybody wants a package to be installed shouldn't be a reason to put it in the @system set. It should instead be a reason to have some tool other than the @system set to give everybody what they want. We need one set for the stuff that everybody agrees is indispensable (@tbd), and a different set for the minimum set of software (@system) you need to bootstrap the rest of the packages in the repo. -- Rich
