On 25/10/16 11:34 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote: >> On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote: >>> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages? >> >> 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 >> > > Unless you need to patch the build system, in which case you need to > re-run autoconf/automake/etc (usually via 'eautoreconf'). And there's > -plenty- of instances of that around as well. >
I forgot to mention that autotools.eclass brings in these dependencies as-needed, though, so I agree that they definitely are not required in the @system set.
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