On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> William Hubbs schrieb:
> > if we keep a dependency for a while, even behind something like
> > IUSE="+oldnet", when we drop it, people will still be hit if they
> > do emerge --depclean before they emerge gentoo-oldnet.
> 
> In my opinion USE flags should toggle dependencies only in
> metapackages or rare exceptions.
> I suggest to include gentoo-oldnet (or whatever name you choose for
> it) in the @system set once it is stable, and until then be a hard
> dependency of OpenRC.
Please note that openrc itself is NOT in the @system set.

sys-apps/baselayout is, and has PDEPEND on openrc.

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