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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> Note for the future:
> 
> And you mentioned the perl dependency for linux ... I'd like to have the
> option to not have perl in the basesystem.  In fact maybe we need to
> make a distinction between "runtime_depends" and "build_depends" if it's
> not both.  That way it could cast (as in resurrect if already built)
> perl, build linux, and then dispel perl when the last spell that needed
> it in the install list completed (while optionally keeping a cache
> laying around).  If we wanted to have more fun, gcc itself could be
> eliminated in that way and only resurrected for stuff that needed it. 
> This would make it really easy to copy a bunch of caches over and since
> most stuff doesn't need a runtime_depends on the full gcc, we could make
> zaurus/embedded/server ports really easy.  runtime_depends don't have to
> be dependency ordered during building, as well.  Anybody following me?
> 

I like this idea. As sorcery gains support for reliably sharing cache
files across a network, a full development environment on some machines 
will be unnecessary (and possibly undesired).

-casey