Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:09:15 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: Olivier <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>, mexas@bristol.ac.uk, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X client without X server Message-ID: <20130703140915.563c9ade.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBviU56oaYfcUjVOOdKY7%2BLcuE97GsHJNp-8_KjsitwsKBQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201307030355.r633tmGL019936@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <201307031047.r63AlGKU034012@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20130703130341.e6856023.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2Bg%2BBviU56oaYfcUjVOOdKY7%2BLcuE97GsHJNp-8_KjsitwsKBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:07:11 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> [...] > >> Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server. > > > > But one of its dependencies might. > > That make no sense, xterm may (and certainly does) depend on the same > libraries as the X server, but there is no way xterm depends on X > server itself. That's what I would imagine too. But who knows what's going on in the strange realm of build dependencies and run dependencies... :-) > I can manually remove X server and the fonts and xclac... and the > system is still running very well (and updating without trying to > reinstall X server...) That should even work without a warning (as the libs for xterm would be kept, and those required by the X server _only_ could safely be removed). In case such a procedure is needed more often, a local patch could be added to the respective port that would remove the unneeded parts in the post-install phase. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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