Git has too many freaking dependencies

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 16:20:02 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM, 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 meta package; try yum install git-core




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