From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sun Jul 12 03:22:13 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 120D396DC for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:22:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Don.whY@gmx.com) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 793D29D4 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:22:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Don.whY@gmx.com) Received: from [192.168.1.115] ([67.212.197.98]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LaXEN-1YZaYQ1hnj-00mIjE for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 05:22:09 +0200 Message-ID: <55A1DD4F.1050507@gmx.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:21:51 -0700 From: Don whY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg for client-only support References: <559EDB56.70808@gmx.com> <2863155.VvqRCPmh7x@desk8.phess.net> In-Reply-To: <2863155.VvqRCPmh7x@desk8.phess.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:jDuISo+e4zQ81x0YpGlCto0Ak5pqBJZIIQhUJNXPKU8L5IZolHX zEkAsoH5mWmw9xGBsmYddW55NEIAl7cfi0+0jLGKk7SWA9UNM263jfVWfQXSIE0lvJnT9KV I7XXNn9EtzW692xDni6AlsgD7iPKXxE6oVT6fQb5cubl4DqXH+BOOXBYbCqJEGzKyCuhEfA 1VcHvkG7IZVbuFB41o2Gg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ptYKIYrCp50=:BmNVjwzHUQGKTz+SIRuSX5 ccoswbQBJs8Yy6337Vvvsqzo7vJqrQrkGZ74FWQEtLJe37MzEi8znFfqCPd2JfVlHk8faXPDZ e4LHAvheFEh+gfJfVd2DVJ/65JlQNVB7dfJP1QvYAIY8IRDj9YMFBGg2S9YJr75jVcnwmuRoG z3Hctu7rGnMwHo2EYHlXVnKOV7scjnXxIzRZZlLifXbHlerRa1buedF8pnILLCDu7fIl6fO/8 IFbYHdX5QBXynAdmB9u8K6wvg2zbCFSHW01RQAFceS93rb6GuuMCftWjFlSt8RT+87ZDsMHxm p3QAW3rub9o4GZvdqGmrfH8s+iDUDz0s5XbeRfjkIyWTQ988Rtw2J6YDke7Rqb9vsdjO3gbEw MIVSsBYZnxEZkAbbT4sd8WK1cD/SuJLm2IqgZEaWqKfV+h3J8R06LfVFybm3/PSCMcHD+7NUt LRWNfZkcxFRg8iDy4Q9lb10NezAuR4fPJZnUA3WzuDQ3SElDkv2CIJjZY3Ogqr+79dsP3Zv1C 5x9/Nj7zO6K/OqMEZ13MMb3Y044fB3H+al3HvqnhNYCkj3ha162Wsznc43RThFG2oaRkBy6JL ZnB2/9KmQ14FA0NEIhTACL6h8sjh2fcihkzuq+ofbUzRHrpURVlVmuXRAGW4Yl034J2QizBD6 6Wth+TKySukCjm8WyrNC8iMHd1MkNativJf9jVkKjcccaK1zzG48WNDJcuPzKYIe8OdU= X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:22:13 -0000 On 7/10/2015 9:41 AM, Patrick Hess wrote: > Don whY wrote: >> For *headless* devices (i.e., no point in having a real *server*!), >> are there significant portions of xorg that I can omit? Or, is it >> easier to build and install it all and remove the unnecessary cruft, >> later? > > Since you don't need the server portions, I don't really see a reason > why you would want to worry about installing any X.org ports by hand. Not sure what you mean "by hand"; if "build from scratch", that's just the way I've done things for the past 20+ years... > Just installing the applications you want to use should automatically > pull in the X.org dependencies that are actually required by these > applications. Are the client dependencies that fine-grained? I.e., they don't just drag The Kitchen Sink in? > This will prevent any unnecessary parts, like server > components and video drivers, from being installed on your system > in the first place. I was hoping for a port akin to "xorg-clients". But, i should be able to hack one together based on your above comment.