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 1NsX6F-0004Pl-Tv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:58:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D18E3E08C9; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2063AE07FB for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.22.10] (ip68-4-152-120.oc.oc.cox.net [68.4.152.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7B61B414E for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4BA32EA8.9030702@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:58:32 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100315 Thunderbird/3.0.3 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont require it References: <4BA27CE2.7080005@gentoo.org> <20100318192424.GH13380@gentoo.org> <4BA324A5.1080203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA324A5.1080203@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 14ccaa4b-4312-4658-9e4a-6fdc2d8090e4 X-Archives-Hash: 83c196af64b1999ea5cf7502e28753bd On 03/19/2010 12:15 AM, Dale wrote: > I think this is because people that use Gentoo do so because it doesn't > install things they don't need. Why install a package that is used by > no other package? It's pointless. > > I would also add, if it gets installed and is used by no other package, > --depclean should remove it. Putting it in package.mask locally is sort > of silly in my opinion. There will come a day, maybe way off in the > future, that something will need it. Then you have to edit the file > again so portage can install it. I guess what you want is an emerge --avoid-new-slots-whenever-possible option. You might also want it to check for cases in which pulling in a new slot will allow you to remove an older slot (that will require some additional work). Having options like those would be really super, but I don't think using package.mask to do it will be so awful. -- Thanks, Zac