Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> writes: > 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
Hehe, alright, now we're talking.... that reduced dependancies to just 1 lonesome cpio. ,---- | vgen ~ # 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 -vp dev-vcs/git | | These are the packages that would be merged, in order: | | Calculating dependencies... done! | [ebuild N ] app-arch/cpio-2.11-r1 USE="-nls" 995 kB | [ebuild N ] dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2 USE="-blksha1 -cgi -curl -cvs | -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gpg -gtk -highlight -iconv -nls -pcre | -perl (-ppcsha1) -python -subversion {-test} -threads -tk -webdav | -xinetd" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python2_6" | PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 4,900 kB | | Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 5,895 kB `---- Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some horrible unsightly mess using git, when installed this way.