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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 18 November 2009 00:22:08 Dale wrote: |
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>>> Some stuff uses sqlite for storage. If it works, leave it alone. Just |
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>>> because some parts of KDE <koff><koff> amarok <koff><koff> have issues |
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>>> with it doesn;t mean all of KDE has issues with it |
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>> So basically I have to have it anyway? It's just one more thing to |
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>> update is why I want to gt rid of it. |
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> You have better things to worry about, trust me :-) |
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> Like, why do you have to have redland and lucene around when a) redland sucks |
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> b) lucene sucks much less despite being java? |
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> Or XML parsers... why do you invariably have libxml and expat at the same |
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> time? |
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> For that matter, I'll bet you have 3 SLOTTED versions of db in addition to |
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> gdbm (all in addition to sqlite of course) |
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> Lets not even start with the scripting languages ... I often hear newbies |
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> complain about having bash, python, perl and ruby all at the same time. Can't |
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> the devs just stick to one language? |
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> See where I'm going with this? At <10M for two versions of sqlite, it's not |
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> worth worrying about and you don't have to pay any attention to updating it - |
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> portage and --depclean will sort you out just fine |
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Well that stirred up my curiosity. Here is my USE line: |
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root@smoker / # emerge --info | grep USE |
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USE="3dnow X aac acl acpi alsa amd automount berkdb bzip2 cairo cddb cdr |
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chroot cli consolekit cracklib cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread |
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emboss encode esd evo exif fam fdftk flac fortran gdbm gif gimp gkrellm |
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gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hbci htmlhandbook iconv ipv6 java |
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javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde ldap libnotify libwww logrotate |
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loop-aes mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql |
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ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp pam |
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parport pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime |
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readline realmedia reflection sdl seamonkey session spell spl sse ssl |
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startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd thunar tiff tk truetype |
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unicode usb vorbis webkit win32codecs wma wmf wmp x264 x86 xml xorg xv |
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xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm |
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alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug |
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ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route |
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share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" |
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INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en_US en" |
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SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" |
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root@smoker / # |
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Should I be turning some of those off as they are not needed? This is |
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my oldest install so I bet some are not even needed or can be done away |
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with. I most likely had a good reason for turning them on way back when |
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but may not have a good reason now. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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