Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

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On Friday 02 Aug 2013 21:41:07 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> > On 3 August 2013, at 04:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> ...
> >> emerge -vp dev-vcs/git  and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be
> >> installed.
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> So I imagine I've done something thats causing that massive of a list
> >> of dependencies.
> >> 
> >> I tried a few USE flags like -X and that did drop it down to
> >> 187... but jeez still thats a bit off the wall.
> > 
> > What profile have you selected, please?
> > 
> > Stroller.
> 
>  ../../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop
> 
> And I will be using a desktop eventually but not now... and when I do
> it will be one of light ones like openbox or such.

It may be too late now, but in your shoes I'd have started with the default 
profile instead of the desktop; that would have avoided pulling in large 
numbers of packages that you didn't need until you were ready to install a 
desktop. Although I run a KDE desktop on this box I still have the default 
profile from when I rebuilt it last month.

If I set profile 3 (desktop), then emerge -puDvN world, I get:
--->8
Total: 66 packages (21 new, 1 in new slot, 44 reinstalls)

Most of those are from the application of a few USE flags, so maybe I can 
now set the desktop profile.

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Regards,
Peter

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