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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:01:39
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=LSD7cjDGgJyAkqW8ycA-NQjgcM8Yps+-HQfkjpViEBg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles by Alec Warner
1 On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
2 > Whatever man, look at all this bloat!
3 >
4 > virtual/ssh
5
6 Great - I can remote access a system that doesn't boot.
7
8 > sys-apps/kbd
9
10 Full editing of config files works with my original IBM PC keyboard
11 (Estonian version)!
12
13 > sys-apps/texinfo
14
15 I can use a really arcane system for browsing documentation when my
16 system doesn't boot (perhaps from not meeting the 6GB of RAM
17 requirement).
18
19 Now all we need is xorg and chromium. If we just use the native
20 Google version it probably doesn't even need any dependencies. :)
21
22 Rich

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