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Hi all, |
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Everytime I install a Gentoo on a system, I curse and scream about one of |
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the major flaws in portage. |
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Whenever I want just one program emerged, say, on a laptop using xfce4 on |
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xfree, USE="-kde -esd -arts |
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-alsa -oss": |
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I want to emerge anjuta, portage wants gnomelibs, which in turn want esd. |
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It totally ignores my |
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useflags, the fact that this notebook does not HAVE sound hardware. OK, |
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that would be too much for |
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portage to know, but the USE is ignored anyway. I just want to run anjuta |
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with xfce4. |
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Okay, I think. Lets emerge all that shit, and get over with. |
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Next thing, I want licq. I pretend. Guess what appears on the list? artsd! |
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I cant stand it, really. |
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Gentoo would be such a nice distro, but it is ALL BLOATED. The fact that |
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it is the best distro out |
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there does make up to that, but it just would be NICER it didn't have to. |
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So I suggest: Let there be |
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a mode for Portage where all CRITICAL dependencies are shown, what the |
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program I want NEEDS to run. |
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I dont want to have an entire OS installed if I just want one program. |
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artsd is not a dep from licq, |
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but somehow entagled in that kde thing, which I dont WANT to have. So, a |
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distinction needs to be |
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made between USEFUL deps, or standard deps, and CRITICAL deps, or needed |
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deps. |
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What do you think? |
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Regards, |
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Timo Lindemann |
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Empty coke in the desert. |
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