bug#317: changes to bbc-contents
Nate Riffe <[email protected]>
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I'm about to commit a number of subtractions from bbc-contents. These subtractions fall into two categories: 1) Packages which need fixing in order to build with glibc 2.3 2) Development tools In the first category are disk/lde, net/iproute2, and net/wvdial. These packages have various source compatibility problems which I believe are related to glibc 2.3. We could probably fix these with new upstream versions. The second category consists of devel/bison, devel/flex, devel/gcc, devel/make, devel/nasm, devel/pkg-config, utils/binutils, and utils/cvs. I think that using a stock BBC as a development platform is silly. That said, I think that there is merit to having a separate LNX distribution which includes them. As far as the BBC is concerned, though, we have a downloadable package system for packages which 1) do not further the core goals of the distribution and 2) might still be useful in some situations. In reality, devel/make and devel/gcc are dependencies of other packages (boot/minit and utils/ltrace), and devel/gcc brings in utils/binutils. A note in utils/ltrace claims that ltrace only uses libiberty from devel/gcc, so that dependency tree can probably be pared down to just lib/libiberty (WNPP). For now, I've taken out utils/ltrace, too. -- --< ((\))< >----< [email protected] >----< http://www.movealong.org/ >-- "I just feel bad for the SUVs... forced to live all cooped up in the city like that." -- The Onion, Vol.39 Issue 07 pub 1024D/05A058E0 2002-03-07 Nate Riffe (06-Mar-2002) <[email protected]> Key fingerprint = 0DAC F5CB D182 3165 D757 C466 CD42 12A8 05A0 58E0