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...
