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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 06:33:10 +0300
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On 03/08/13 06:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
> No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in
> progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox.  I ran the command
>
> emerge -vp dev-vcs/git  and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be
> installed.

Try disabling all flags and see where that gets you. You can do that 
with a single command:

USE="-blksha1 -curl -gpg -iconv -pcre -python -threads -webdav -cgi -cvs 
-doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gtk -highlight -nls -perl -ppcsha1 
-subversion -test -tk -xinetd" emerge -p dev-vcs/git