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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