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Removing "less" gem (css) and inline JS dependencies #8350

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I'm having some trouble installing the inline JS gems like therubyracer and libv8, and it appears this isn't so uncommon. less is built into the Rails 5+ pipeline but is not plugged into a system-wide nodejs, so it requires some native gem compilation on some systems (i'm on a chromebook, but this affects windows too).

Looking, I don't actually think we use less almost at all. What if we just removed it, in /config/application.rb and in Gemfile?

Would that cause trouble? I wonder if @Tlazypanda or @alaxalves have thoughts on this.

I was able to simply remove those lines and run the app locally. Just wondering!

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