On 15 Oct 2015 12:15, Zac Medico wrote: > On 10/15/2015 08:34 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > background: > > everyone wants @system to be slim, but most people want the initial stage > > tarball that we release and you install Gentoo from to not be completely > > sparse. we've got a bug for this topic: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/393445 > > > > items to sort out: > > - should the list of packages be in catalyst or profile-stacked content > > -> imo it should be entirely in the profile > > > > - should the packages list be in a new packages.default, or should we > > create a > > new set to hold it, or should we just go with @profile ? > > -> @profile has the advantage of already existing. we have to be careful > > so as > > to make it difficult to uninstall packages that the user does not > > actually > > want. > > In portage, the current meaning of @profile is very similar to @system, > except that it implies that members specify dependencies completely > (allowing for optimal parallelization) [1]. The @profile set is only > enabled for profiles from repositories that have "profile-formats = > profile-set" set in metadata/layout.conf. It's an extension which is not > covered by PMS.
layout.conf isn't covered by PMS, nor are sets, and packages file format is
compatible with PMS. so i think we are OK here.
> > - if the packages aren't in @profile, should they be seeded in @world ?
> > -> imo yes as we don't want all the default packages getting depcleaned as
> > soon as you start using the new install. if they're in @profile, then
> > this
> > is a moot point (assuming depclean does not clean out @profile).
>
> In portage, @world = @profile + @selected + @system, which means that
> @profile is protected from depclean since it's a part of @world.
so if iputils is in @profile, and i do:
emerge -C iputils
i don't get the ugly warning about it being in @system, but if i do:
emerge @world
iputils comes back. i think that's OK actually since people can do:
emerge @selected
which has the classic @world meaning.
-mike
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