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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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Neil Bothwick |
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This is as bad as it can get; but don't bet on it. |
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