Wang Xuerui <idontknw.w...@gmail.com> writes: > 2013/8/3 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com>: >> Hehe, alright, now we're talking.... that reduced dependancies to just >> 1 lonesome cpio. >> >> Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some >> horrible unsightly mess using git, when installed this way. > > IIRC you only have to do USE="-perl" and most dependencies will be > gone... I distantly recall the last time I installed git on one of my > server nodes most packages pulled in was in the form virtual/perl-* > and perl-*/*, i.e. CPAN packages. > > However, according to the ebuild, you need USE="perl" set if you want > to enable subversion support or something funnier like CGI, so you'd > probably have to consider this whole thing a little bit more before > drawing your conclusion...
Well, I see leaving perl, python and curl alone, or that is, NOT including -perl -python -curl, still knocks it down to less than half of the 194... at 79 pkgs. The vast majority are virtual/perl or other perl pkgs... so not much data wise. So, anyway, thinking I'll go with USE="-blksha1 -gpg -iconv -pcre -threads -webdav -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gtk -highlight -nls -ppcsha1 -subversion -test -tk -xinetd" emerge -v dev-vcs/git Unless I hear something that would indicate it will be too crippled even for the usage I plan.
