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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 14:58:36
Message-Id: 1628715.6Z0yuMOYhp@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium bloat by Neil Bothwick
1 On Saturday 27 February 2016 12:51:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:35:02 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > I think I know the answer already, but is there any way to install www-
4 > > client/chromium without all the bloat? I don't see any need here for
5 > >
6 > > any of these:
7 > > app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher
8 > > app-accessibility/espeak
9 > > media-sound/sox
10 > > media-libs/libsndfile
11 > > media-libs/speex
12 > >
13 > > ...but they aren't controlled, or even affected, by USE flags. And why
14 > > two versions of dev-python/beautifulsoup?
15 >
16 > Looking at the ebuild, speech-dispatcher is required is you do not have
17 > USE="gn", the rest aren't mentioned and are probably dependencies of
18 > speech-dispatcher.
19
20 That looked promising until I noticed "(-gn)" in USE when I said emerge -pv
21 chromium. So of course setting it in package.use didn't help.
22
23 Thanks anyway.
24
25 --
26 Rgds
27 Peter

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