Bug 742251

Summary:	I propose to split stage3 into rstage3 and bstage3
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Einstok Fair <einfair>
Component:	Stages	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	fturco, jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Einstok Fair 2020-09-13 03:11:51 UTC

Not all systems require installed compiler to function
(some of them require only package manager to install binary packages).

I propose to split stage3 tarball into two different tarballs. This logically follows EAPI-7 separation of RDEPEND and BDEPEND.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Einstok Fair 2020-09-13 03:27:44 UTC

and also, separate @system set into @system and @buildtools

Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2020-09-13 03:37:33 UTC

Stage only means needing to run `emerge --depclean --with-bdeps=n` to cleanup, is it really worth its own tarball for every main profiles, mirrored and everything? Also while considering that not many users need this.

Not that it's up to me.

gcc/binutils/etc... does have to stay either way given it's used for checks and other non-compiling tasks. Making those optional would require some major reviewing anyhow, can't casually removing things from @system.

Comment 3 Einstok Fair 2020-09-13 04:22:49 UTC

And premerge checks should be separated into pre-compile-time checks and pre-install-time checks.

Comment 4 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2020-09-13 18:44:27 UTC

This is kind of asking for a large set of different things and is done in a low effort way.