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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: can emerging git really require 121 pkgs?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 22:32:33
Message-Id: 87oar5x3q8.fsf@reader.local.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] can emerging git really require 121 pkgs? by Michael Orlitzky
1 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> writes:
2
3 > On 12/14/2014 04:54 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
4 >> Even on a fairly bare new install slowly being brough up to desired
5 >> setup it seems like reqiring 116 new pkgs to install dev-vcs/git is
6 >> bit much.
7 >
8 > USE=perl is responsible for some of them, but you also want it set if
9 > you actually intend to use git.
10 >
11 > The rest look like they're being pulled in with USE=gtk, which in turn
12 > requires the Xorg stuff. Passing "--tree" to emerge will either confirm,
13 > or surprise you, who knows.
14
15 Thanks for the input.
16
17 using: # USE='-gtk' emerge -v dev-vcs/git
18
19 Knocks it down to a much nicer 24 pkgs... thanks