From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NsY2B-0002wZ-OU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:58:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B08C8E0AB9; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:58:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77534E0AAB for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:58:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so2979985bwz.26 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:58:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=28CydiufYS23uZAGLPhLU7KXZ0+YmX2gy9a88CKR3a0=; b=x7TSMkG5WPbh3W/lMnkRdz07uwMnOxoBjra7G56Qv7zoalQnzogQG8xQn++953HMeP Z5mSAyIjw4Q8AEohMhQ4AefQkjwTTCr7VJ94icLl/Wtg0TJEoVwrgYM/Kgdx3+ygppVT EIPmHh1YuuOy90LuGbEfUtac1euaCSzmjHhqM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=DZUpTii+eQsNcmmMH0QY+1iSBBFUJQTBoMUxigH+EGRI7kW+6s+plaacWZN0HdVHSJ eBTL7fSKDTIpYzc6IdwGwgRVUzWry7M6SXN54gE/KAA19IjV2XiRbN+ZR58afYadRmwY DboPaQq6jVQkaGGuRTtHl9w+ivRxk/FbqiAc0= Received: by 10.204.24.134 with SMTP id v6mr2693788bkb.204.1268989081664; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowmobile ([78.144.69.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g18sm3672911bkw.13.2010.03.19.01.58.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:51 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it Message-ID: <20100319085751.1c7f5dca@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <4BA33BC4.10502@gmail.com> References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> <20100318192424.GH13380@gentoo.org> <20100318215331.59ad6253@notorcomp.notorgroup.local> <20100319081207.22282ba9@snowmobile> <4BA33BC4.10502@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/OJun0z0UAbb=FqQ1A=keUgH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7724e849-ddb0-4698-9ddf-f685f98fe4ec X-Archives-Hash: afa83ac106db85b043a4bfd217a16a58 --Sig_/OJun0z0UAbb=FqQ1A=keUgH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500 Dale wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100 > > Ben de Groot 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 --Sig_/OJun0z0UAbb=FqQ1A=keUgH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkujPJIACgkQ96zL6DUtXhH2vgCfYfs7+uysDyJuYXGPi1cUPAkO bdwAn0Rdlw/o3sQjZmE91u6Q19dWZEEj =ZRrV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/OJun0z0UAbb=FqQ1A=keUgH--