Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium bloat

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Saturday 27 February 2016 12:51:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:35:02 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I think I know the answer already, but is there any way to install www-
> > client/chromium without all the bloat? I don't see any need here for
> > 
> > any of these:
> > 	app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher
> > 	app-accessibility/espeak
> > 	media-sound/sox
> > 	media-libs/libsndfile
> > 	media-libs/speex
> > 
> > ...but they aren't controlled, or even affected, by USE flags. And why
> > two versions of dev-python/beautifulsoup?
> 
> Looking at the ebuild, speech-dispatcher is required is you do not have
> USE="gn", the rest aren't mentioned and are probably dependencies of
> speech-dispatcher.

That looked promising until I noticed "(-gn)" in USE when I said emerge -pv 
chromium. So of course setting it in package.use didn't help.

Thanks anyway.

-- 
Rgds
Peter