Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:34:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> root@fireball / # eix cantor
>> [I] kde-base/cantor
>>        Available versions:  (4) 4.6.2{tbz2} 4.6.3{tbz2} (~)4.6.4{tbz2}
>>           {+R aqua debug +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix ps}
>>        Installed versions:  4.6.4(4){tbz2}(01:24:34 PM
>> 06/22/2011)(handbook -R -aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -ps)
>>        Homepage:            http://www.kde.org/
>>        Description:         KDE4 interface for doing mathematics and
>> scientific computing
>>
>> root@fireball / #
>>
>> You may not need it unless you jump into the menu and go to Education>
>> Mathematics>  Cantor.  I don't even know how it works so if you are the
>> same as me, you won't need it.
>>
> So why are you installing it, and all its dependencies, on the one hand,
> and complaining about bloat on the other? Surely installing stuff you
> don't need is the very definition of bloat.
>
>

But it installed stuff either way.  Instread of ABD, I got WXYZ because 
of dependencies.  It's not that I want them, it's that portage needs 
them to make a package that I do want happy.  This reminds me of the six 
of one or half a dozen of the other.  This may be nine of one tho.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)