Git has too many freaking dependencies
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 16:17:58 UTC 2008
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:13:45 -0500
"Yaakov Nemoy" <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> Before I go and submit a bug, I would like to ask why git requires
> that i install so many dependencies? Apparently, to manage files, git
> requires no less than CVS, Subversion, emacs-common and emacs-git, and
> tk. Below is a log from yum. I'm not complaining too much as I will
> need these tools too, but it strikes me as very odd that git requires
> that I have not only a working kitchen sink, but a dishwasher, and
> servants to load it every day.
git is a metapackage that wraps all the various sub-packages that git
has.
If you really only want the core stuff, do this:
yum install git-core
It will bring in some perl deps that are needed, but not nearly as much
as what you're seeing now.
This is not a bug. Please don't file one.
josh
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