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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> The attached patch for bug #132355 [1] adds a --mindeps option for |
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> emerge that effectively allows build time dependencies to be excluded |
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> from dependency calculations involving binary and installed packages. |
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> With this patch, it's possible to remove all build time dependencies |
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> from a system with the command `emerge --depclean --mindeps`. When |
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> --mindeps is used to install packages, it causes build time |
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> dependencies to be excluded for binary packages and packages that are |
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> already installed. |
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Consider this a suggestion disguised as a question: why not make that |
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the overall default instead of enabled with a command-line switch? It |
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makes sense. "Don't install the packages that aren't needed." Simple. |
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I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme |
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foolishness. I no longer thought that. There's nothing foolish in |
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loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish. |
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