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Subject: Xorg meta ports bloated dependencies
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I've just been helping somebody through an installation of
6.2-RELEASE and we've noticed the excessive dependencies of
the xorg meta ports.

xorg-server 1.4, for example, depends on:

dbus-1.0.2_2, dbus-glib-0.74, glib-2.14.2, gnome_subr-1.0, 
hal-0.5.8.20070909 and even strange things like cdrtools-2.01_6.

xorg-server 1.2 (the one distributed with the 6.2-RELEASE CD)
doesn't have these dependencies.

Putting it bluntly: why is this crap being dragged in? Neither
of us use GNOME or anything that might require dbus. I can't see
why xorg-server could possibly need any of the above?

Anxiously awaiting a flaming argument.

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dc