* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?
@ 2011-06-23 10:49 99% ` Dale
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From: Dale @ 2011-06-23 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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
:-) :-)
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2011-06-22 6:24 [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now? Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-22 11:18 ` Dale
2011-06-22 13:19 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-22 13:33 ` Dale
2011-06-22 14:24 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-22 15:35 ` Dale
2011-06-22 16:11 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-22 17:23 ` Todd Goodman
2011-06-22 18:15 ` Dale
2011-06-22 18:35 ` Dale
2011-06-22 20:33 ` Todd Goodman
2011-06-22 21:34 ` Dale
2011-06-22 22:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-23 5:03 ` Dale
2011-06-23 9:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-06-23 10:49 99% ` Dale
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