[gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-12-11, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>>> I detest python, also, but there's no way w/out it.
>
>> I like python - the language was designed by a mathematician and it
>> shows. Contrast with perl which was designed by a linguist, and that
>> shows too.
>>
>> As you say you can't run Gentoo with portage without Python, that's
>> one of the things you know for sure up front.
>
> What does it matter whether you like the language or not when you are
> only using software written in it? It only matters is you develop
> that software. I cannot get on with Perl, but I am not at all
> bothered about using software written in it.
>
> If you really have some philosophical or allergenic objection to even
> having Python installed, you could always use a different package
> manager.

If he want's to avoid using programs written in Python, he'll probably
have to give up Linux completely.

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