Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:14:04 -0200 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is x11-servers/xorg-server dependent on libXaw, among others? Message-ID: <e71790db0912250514x27143bb1r95c981c17978a507@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091225080332.GA92821@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <e71790db0912210630g1e287229j87f7d90098e372e4@mail.gmail.com> <20091225080332.GA92821@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> wrote: > On 2009-Dec-21 12:30:30 -0200, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> wrote: >>Yes, here I go gain with another attempt to reduce package >>dependencies. I'm attempting to understand why the xorg-server port >>depends on libX11, libXaw, libXmu, libXt, libXpm and libXext. I'd like >>to remove at least libXaw and libXt from the dependencies. What do >>you, x11 maintaires, think about this? > > There are no obvious runtime dependencies on libX11, libXaw, libXmu, > libXt, libXpm or libXext (via either ldd or lsof on a running Xserver). > > As an initial check, you could try removing those dependencies from the > Makefile and see if xorg-server builds and runs in a clean environment. > A more thorough check would require checking against all input and > video drivers. I already removed the libs from the Makefile and both xorg-server, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse and xf86-video-intel run flawlessly. I will try to build all input and video drivers on a clean chroot environment and look for dependencies.
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