On 10/25/2016 04:01 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400 > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Looking at profiles/base/packages, I see a bunch of lines that are >> commented out. For example, >> >> *sys-apps/which >> #*sys-devel/autoconf >> #*sys-devel/automake >> *sys-devel/binutils >> #*sys-devel/bison >> #*sys-devel/flex >> *sys-devel/gcc >> >> Does anyone know why those are commented as opposed to just.. not >> there? > > > Those used to be in @system and were dropped at some point once ebuilds > had proper deps. My guess would be ppl wanted to keep them commented > out just in case it appeared to be a bad idea to drop them and be able > to "revert" easily. Nowadays, we can probably assume it was ok :) >
Indeed, to avoid confusion I'd suggest cleaning it up unless base-system or QA has any objections. -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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