From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies...
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 08:57:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140106085722.51c48ef9@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140106083640.GB3854@solfire>
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:36:40 +0100, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> thank you for the inofrmation! :))
> I am currently on the way of installing texlive completly
> and I cannot get enough documentation about it...
> So I thought, that "doc" was a good idea...but iw seems not
> to be...
It may be a good idea, for that package, but not globally. Even so,
unless you need API documentation, I doubt you want that flag.
> I will switch it off again.
> On the other side: Not being able to install docs globally seems
> to be a logical problem (beside being useless...), which needs
> to be fixed...right?
The usual solution is to install with -doc first and then enable the
flag. This often brings in a long list of dependencies, which is where
the problems can arise. I don't have a problems with Gentoo devs not
spending time solving a problems that should not occur with sensible use.
--
Neil Bothwick
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-06 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-06 7:18 [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies meino.cramer
2014-01-06 7:29 ` Khumba
2014-01-06 8:21 ` meino.cramer
2014-01-06 8:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-06 8:36 ` meino.cramer
2014-01-06 8:57 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-01-06 16:03 ` Khumba
2014-01-06 20:40 ` Neil Bothwick
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2010-07-26 11:32 András Csányi
2010-07-26 12:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-07-26 12:21 ` András Csányi
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