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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium bloat
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 15:18:21
Message-Id: 3876961.rvSejQxJ2O@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium bloat by Peter Humphrey
1 On Saturday 27 February 2016 14:58:25 I wrote:
2 > On Saturday 27 February 2016 12:51:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:35:02 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
4 > > > I think I know the answer already, but is there any way to install
5 > > > www-
6 > > > client/chromium without all the bloat? I don't see any need here for
7 > > >
8 > > > any of these:
9 > > > app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher
10 > > > app-accessibility/espeak
11 > > > media-sound/sox
12 > > > media-libs/libsndfile
13 > > > media-libs/speex
14 > > >
15 > > > ...but they aren't controlled, or even affected, by USE flags. And why
16 > > > two versions of dev-python/beautifulsoup?
17 > >
18 > > Looking at the ebuild, speech-dispatcher is required is you do not have
19 > > USE="gn", the rest aren't mentioned and are probably dependencies of
20 > > speech-dispatcher.
21 >
22 > That looked promising until I noticed "(-gn)" in USE when I said emerge
23 > -pv chromium. So of course setting it in package.use didn't help.
24
25 Where are these punctuation marks documented, anyway? I've looked in various
26 man pages and even the portage/output.py file under /usr/lib. Google didn't
27 help either.
28
29 --
30 Rgds
31 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium bloat Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>