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I would wish to install Erlang on my server. So I enter the command into pacman and get faced with a wall of dependencies. Unecessary dependencies! Erlang needs almost nothing of these packages to work. Most of them are just bullshit GUI and media packages, I want a compiler and virtual machine not a window manager.
# pacman -Syu erlang
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 4 providers available for libgl:
:: Repository extra
1) mesa-libgl 2) nvidia-304xx-utils 3) nvidia-utils
:: Repository community
4) catalyst-utils
Enter a number (default=1):
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (70): atk-2.6.0-1 avahi-0.6.31-6 cairo-1.12.14-3
compositeproto-0.4.2-2 damageproto-1.2.1-2 fixesproto-5.0-2
fontconfig-2.10.2-1 freetype2-2.4.11-2 gdk-pixbuf2-2.26.5-1
glu-9.0.0-2 gnutls-3.1.9-1 graphite-1:1.2.1-1
gstreamer0.10-0.10.36-1 gstreamer0.10-base-0.10.36-1
gtk-update-icon-cache-2.24.16-1 gtk2-2.24.16-1 harfbuzz-0.9.9-3
icu-50.1.2-1 inputproto-2.2-1 kbproto-1.0.6-1 libcups-1.6.1-6
libdaemon-0.14-2 libdatrie-0.2.5-1 libdrm-2.4.42-1
libice-1.0.8-1 libjpeg-turbo-1.2.1-1 libpciaccess-0.13.1-1
libpng-1.5.14-1 libsm-1.2.1-1 libtasn1-3.2-1 libthai-0.1.18-1
libtiff-4.0.3-1 libvdpau-0.6-1 libx11-1.5.0-2 libxau-1.0.7-1
libxcb-1.9-3 libxcomposite-0.4.4-1 libxcursor-1.1.13-1
libxdamage-1.1.4-1 libxdmcp-1.1.1-1 libxext-1.3.1-1
libxfixes-5.0-2 libxft-2.3.1-1 libxi-1.6.2-1
libxinerama-1.1.2-1 libxrandr-1.4.0-1 libxrender-0.9.7-1
libxv-1.0.7-1 libxxf86vm-1.1.2-1 mesa-9.1-2 mesa-libgl-9.1-2
nettle-2.6-1 nodejs-0.8.22-1 orc-0.4.16-1 p11-kit-0.13-1
pango-1.32.5-1 pixman-0.28.2-1 randrproto-1.4.0-1
renderproto-0.11.1-2 sdl-1.2.15-3 shared-mime-info-1.1-1
videoproto-2.3.1-2 wayland-1.0.5-1 wxgtk-2.8.12.1-4
xcb-proto-1.8-1 xextproto-7.2.1-1 xf86vidmodeproto-2.3.1-2
xineramaproto-1.2.1-2 xproto-7.0.23-1 erlang-R16B-1
Total Download Size: 103.61 MiB
Total Installed Size: 468.76 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 454.50 MiB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]Last edited by lordmetroid (2013-03-08 07:36:28)
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erlang-nox ?
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The solution was to install erlang-nox, why the headless version is not the standard version is beyond my understanding but ok. I can live with it.
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