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 1QZhXB-0002gv-4q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:53:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7FA61C05C; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E541C05C for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yic15 with SMTP id 15so1041647yic.40 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:49:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=w9MZB6t+IilAQQXg72mMFqgY40HUE/zf044dIePq9iQ=; b=tqZn7ZJeuw9CV6AA7nCroNpaAw6gcnatro0ru0ltkGU1QFe2VbJfeh0C0NI6nZLDem 20aITnM69r+mCs0mbrLpo8/MJONMoCpTzH0ZvWCOSfyttDY0oPoXjsMMkXReqi8/OmRC J8yu6sbG928fXYMijhFkK2W8lcYdmAoBy8Vt4= 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=ou9j3r3xo03+vy4Oc9j+qNU5BP97v02yUQtHyEjamDpoNa7i051ceQwbIh38wHY0LR vT20t9/tHIktSjEhofT9fynxZHcs+m4wpT5y/pg4j2vC+k79y/9jPVhDPnZlV1baxc2H ziQJoWyi9hKnmunM+Q2IQW81HemBdXdD9Tabk= Received: by 10.146.14.28 with SMTP id 28mr2017679yan.30.1308826187475; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-109-99.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.109.99]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r4sm1456250ann.1.2011.06.23.03.49.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E031A49.4090009@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:49:45 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? References: <4E01CF99.1070109@gmail.com> <4E01EF3F.8040800@gmail.com> <4E020BA4.50201@gmail.com> <20110622172309.GZ20163@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <4E023128.9040002@gmail.com> <4E0235F6.7090409@gmail.com> <20110622203345.GA20163@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <4E025FEB.8020709@gmail.com> <20110622235616.70ccbc16@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4E02C924.4090000@gmail.com> <20110623100255.158ac5ba@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110623100255.158ac5ba@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 96f752ec9e49e63b1aebf32194c6e2c6 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:03:32 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >>> So why are you installing it, and all its dependencies, on the one >>> hand, and complaining about bloat on the other? Surely installing >>> stuff you don't need is the very definition of bloat. >>> > >> But it installed stuff either way. Instread of ABD, I got WXYZ because >> of dependencies. It's not that I want them, it's that portage needs >> them to make a package that I do want happy. This reminds me of the >> six of one or half a dozen of the other. This may be nine of one tho. >> lol >> > My question was why are you installing cantor if you don't need it? > > You don't use it, you don't need it, it drags in a bunch of dependencies > that require other packages to install more files too, yet you still want > it there. > > Hint: I don't have cantor installed and the sky hasn't fallen in, at > least not yet. > > Oh, I see. It was pulled in by kde-meta. I know I can have KDE other ways but it is much easier to emerge kde-meta than to emerge < some huge amount of packages >. There are times when I am looking through the menu and find something interesting that I didn't know about before. So far, Cantor isn't one of them. lol Dale :-) :-)