Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 08:58:17
Message-Id: 20140106085722.51c48ef9@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies... by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:36:40 +0100, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2
3 > thank you for the inofrmation! :))
4 > I am currently on the way of installing texlive completly
5 > and I cannot get enough documentation about it...
6 > So I thought, that "doc" was a good idea...but iw seems not
7 > to be...
8
9 It may be a good idea, for that package, but not globally. Even so,
10 unless you need API documentation, I doubt you want that flag.
11
12 > I will switch it off again.
13 > On the other side: Not being able to install docs globally seems
14 > to be a logical problem (beside being useless...), which needs
15 > to be fixed...right?
16
17 The usual solution is to install with -doc first and then enable the
18 flag. This often brings in a long list of dependencies, which is where
19 the problems can arise. I don't have a problems with Gentoo devs not
20 spending time solving a problems that should not occur with sensible use.
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24 Neil Bothwick
25
26 On the other hand, you have different fingers.

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