Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> writes: > On 08/02/2013 08:22 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some >> horrible unsightly mess using git, when installed this way. >> > > Without USE=perl, you'll get a surprise if you try to `git add -i`.
Well, I do have perl installed so if its just a matter of having perl available then wouldn't it still work? ------- ------- ---=--- ------- ------- Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> writes: [...] Harry wrote: >> Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some >> horrible unsightly mess using git, when installed this way. Marc replied: > I think that depends entirely on how exactly you plan on using git, > for example: > > - "python" and "perl" seem to control additional python and perl packages, but > they are also used by some commit hooks and scripts > - tk is required for the gitk GUI (which is useful for browsing history) > - gpg is required for gpg commit signing > - cvs and subversion are only needed for the "git-cvs" and "git-svn" commands > > Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure what you would be missing through such, uh, > "radical" minimalism ;) ; "equery uses git" is your friend for some of the > other flags, e.g., curl is required for http[s]:// repository URLs. Thanks for the walkthru... My main reason to install git is to clone sources for emacs and gnus... emacs actually uses bazaar, but there is a git mirror of the bazaar repo. 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... OK, makes sense. So given that my main (probably only) use of git is to access devel brances of emacs and gnus... maybe a few other things. That might entail backing out a particularly buggy version for an earlier one or such. And that I will actually only 'lightly' be using git for its intended version control purpose. I will be doing my own version control of a few scripts and etc with mercurial, and mercurial shows no deps whatever with: emerge -vp mercurial
