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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500 |
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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100 |
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> > Ben de Groot<yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> Because it is extremely useless to the great majority of users. |
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> >> |
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> > Most packages in the tree are useless to the great majority of |
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> > users. |
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> Which is why most users don't install everything. I have about 1000 |
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> packages installed here. The packages installed are either something |
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> I use or a dependency of something I use. What exactly is this being |
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> installed for again? If nothing depends on it, there is no need to |
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> have it. |
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It's being installed because it's a dependency of something you use. |
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Replace Python with any other library and we wouldn't be having this |
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discussion. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |