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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages pulling in python-3*, also they dont  require
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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100
> Ben de Groot<yngwin@gentoo.org>  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

:-)  :-)