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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] can emerging git really require 121 pkgs?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:54:40
Message-Id: 87sighx5h7.fsf@reader.local.lan
1 Even on a fairly bare new install slowly being brough up to desired
2 setup it seems like reqiring 116 new pkgs to install dev-vcs/git is
3 bit much.
4
5 But:
6 Total: 121 packages (3 upgrades, 116 new, 2 in new slots),
7 Size of downloads: 20,759 kB
8
9 Even with USE="-X" its still 104
10
11 Whereas bzr and mercurial require about 5 each
12
13 Can that be right?
14
15 Oh, and also includes somekind of slotting mess involving different
16 versions of perl
17
18 At some point I will actually need git but for now bzr and mercurial
19 will do.
20
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22 emerge -vp dev-vcs/git
23 (To avoid clogging the group with all that text... its posted here:
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25 zeus.jtan.com/~reader/vu2/disp.cgi

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