Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

2013-08-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 02 Aug 2013 23:03:13 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be installed. emerge -tp dev-vcs/git should show you what it pulling in which packages, then you can tweak your USE flags. It is quite possible, even likely, that this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

2013-08-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 August 2013, at 04:03, Harry Putnam wrote: ... emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be installed. ... So I imagine I've done something thats causing that massive of a list of dependencies. I tried a few USE flags like -X and that did drop it down to

[gentoo-user] Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?

2013-08-02 Thread Harry Putnam
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. Well, that seems just a wee bit excessive for an install just getting underway.. no