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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:51 +0000
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100
> > Ben de Groot<yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > =20
> >> Because it is extremely useless to the great majority of users.
> >> =20
> > Most packages in the tree are useless to the great majority of
> > users.
>=20
> Which is why most users don't install everything. I have about 1000=20
> packages installed here. The packages installed are either something
> I use or a dependency of something I use. What exactly is this being=20
> installed for again? If nothing depends on it, there is no need to
> have it.
It's being installed because it's a dependency of something you use.
Replace Python with any other library and we wouldn't be having this
discussion.
--=20
Ciaran McCreesh
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