Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't generate / distribute a release tarball.
However, I don't think this is the criterion used to determine what should be in @system. The wiki defines the system set as the set that "contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux installation to run properly". That definition definitely excludes automake and autoconf (arguably gcc should also excluded, under that definition, so the wiki might not be 100% correct). -Nicholas Vinson On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: > Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k...@gentoo.org > <mailto:k...@gentoo.org>> wrote: > > On 10/25/2016 04:01 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:43:44 -0400 > > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org <mailto: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 > <http://pool.sks-keyservers.net> > fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 > >
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