Git has too many freaking dependencies

[Bill Nottingham]

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