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.


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