On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:54:28 -0500 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:17:17 +0100 > > Ben de Groot<yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> Because it is extremely useless to the great majority of users. > >> > > Most packages in the tree are useless to the great majority of > > users. > > Which is why most users don't install everything. I have about 1000 > packages installed here. The packages installed are either something > I use or a dependency of something I use. What exactly is this being > installed for again? If nothing depends on it, there is no need to > have it.
It's being installed because it's a dependency of something you use. Replace Python with any other library and we wouldn't be having this discussion. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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