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 1NsYQi-0006GU-Lm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:23:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE7A5E0BC8; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f199.google.com (mail-yw0-f199.google.com [209.85.211.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78911E0B90 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:23:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh37 with SMTP id 37so173183ywh.2 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:23:35 -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=ScAFeaC9MnjYTRg8H1iDXu87M75BpwoMGEFNz4GNjlU=; b=U86Cu9LBpacraB8RptBC4tnYJ1j1lzT2TOuZ4qTXBBikiqsVZXxJCFTFuMGUYyiM30 FPrCR0cX5IH/Wq+sVaUtMPoeMQ1MSylrE48HT1GasjgrLQbMdTOlEa8RqQpU3t6BJosK gft9T2907TD72G105QyTKYGpG/RVN7yKQTfNc= 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=vavn5TKobkv/moXBXLZbkclH12eCg6bkHReS1irQMqlF2BPlbuZjdrCGbkHxOEMB84 Fjp/emjSU7Mn58iYvvEe6CJppvPjn1ECkmGX2ozfQchHNW3O2UmhlxaibpLQOmW+XT6Y eLqKLUYLG15+af7YqrWtdpuqKAgwxdBJzq1yY= Received: by 10.101.27.40 with SMTP id e40mr6538409anj.167.1268990615036; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:23:35 -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 16sm576341gxk.5.2010.03.19.02.23.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BA34293.1040302@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:23:31 -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> <4BA33BC4.10502@gmail.com> <20100319085751.1c7f5dca@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <20100319085751.1c7f5dca@snowmobile> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 98983663-cd9c-4488-9c18-51af70e70183 X-Archives-Hash: b6a31a3a37c427b2225412aa5fae4ff1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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: >>> >>> >>>> 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. >> > 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. > > OK. Right now, as you type this, what package depends on python-3 and won't work with python-2? Anything at all? If it is nothing, then why install it? Since python-3 is not what the system is using, it's not getting used even if it is installed. So as I mentioned in another reply, portage is installing something and it is just sitting there doing nothing. What is the point in that? Dale :-) :-)