Hello Maurice,

On Fri Dec 01 2017 17:41:24, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK> Not that I know for sure about gentoo, there are dependencies that can
 MK> be dropped without any harm to the total end result.  Case in point is
 MK> the addition of python3 and a couple of it's offshoots to a basic LFS
 MK> build.  Those can be safely skipped over but I get the impression that
 MK> it might cause some grief later on if the more needy xorg and the ilk
 MK> are of interest.

Fore sure.

 MK> In my case 144 'packages' is all I will be using in the immediate
 MK> future.  One of them is python2 which glib, and hence mc, require.  I
 MK> could learn to live without mc and that would rid me of those two
 MK> dependencies given nothing else absolutely needs them.

Lean and mean, with a little sugar for oneself never hurt anyone. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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