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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:03:32 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> So why are you installing it, and all its dependencies, on the one |
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>>> hand, and complaining about bloat on the other? Surely installing |
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>>> stuff you don't need is the very definition of bloat. |
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>> But it installed stuff either way. Instread of ABD, I got WXYZ because |
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>> of dependencies. It's not that I want them, it's that portage needs |
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>> them to make a package that I do want happy. This reminds me of the |
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>> six of one or half a dozen of the other. This may be nine of one tho. |
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>> lol |
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> My question was why are you installing cantor if you don't need it? |
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> You don't use it, you don't need it, it drags in a bunch of dependencies |
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> that require other packages to install more files too, yet you still want |
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> it there. |
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> Hint: I don't have cantor installed and the sky hasn't fallen in, at |
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> least not yet. |
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Oh, I see. It was pulled in by kde-meta. I know I can have KDE other |
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ways but it is much easier to emerge kde-meta than to emerge < some huge |
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amount of packages >. There are times when I am looking through the |
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menu and find something interesting that I didn't know about before. So |
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far, Cantor isn't one of them. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |