Git has too many freaking dependencies
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 15 16:18:27 UTC 2008
Yaakov Nemoy (loupgaroublond at gmail.com) said:
> 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's a metapackage, you probably want git-core.
Bill
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