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 1NsXyk-0002Ql-BF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:54:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58B1FE09BF; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f177.google.com (mail-yx0-f177.google.com [209.85.210.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAEEE09B2 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe7 with SMTP id 7so1569864yxe.32 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:54:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=H23V/zHzTNe2twWkeP01hHvQSyxeqeX6wHCwbxazb+w=; b=LV3LevbnaDmhaU5dHtLXS6w7UMZMXy9SjiQiQNu4byzJHNQx4GQyKtKAzAjZw/dnFs olZla5b3S4RCwlPPVirmyBeapt+OVDij5Ri3RLMv2WZQy5qh1b/tYJlUd/zH1K5XGwRe 8/jHRBa5xobZl8RA6qzGu+9r8FOrnVdoeZSL8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BXCn/458mShVxMKWI6SOKOJPZX5DSduJq4IvnL6GlglWaYzjZHqJy5FB/JIzndc7u5 rZg0DDLu895iOsCYiW+cH3B15bXUPJotyNFkL/nLuxuBqyCIdm65mgEOJC58xxVVMqtR 6lIfFqNijpvnyAPWOuG+6lEc11dvI2AE8zA2Y= Received: by 10.101.187.17 with SMTP id o17mr6579458anp.201.1268988871818; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-94-43.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm562192gxk.5.2010.03.19.01.54.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BA33BC4.10502@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100304 Gentoo/2.0.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 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> <20100318215331.59ad6253@notorcomp.notorgroup.local> <20100319081207.22282ba9@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <20100319081207.22282ba9@snowmobile> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 384d50d3-2107-44e8-92aa-8a86604bb23c X-Archives-Hash: 58d172ddd45c3234980e07ebdc36cadb Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100 > Ben de Groot wrote: > >> Because it is extremely useless to the great majority of users. >> > Most packages in the tree are useless to the great majority of users. > > Which is why most users don't install everything. I have about 1000 packages installed here. The packages installed are either something I use or a dependency of something I use. What exactly is this being installed for again? If nothing depends on it, there is no need to have it. Dale :-) :-)