From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 28 02:42:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC8C16A4C8 for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 02:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2262613C4BC for ; Mon, 28 May 2007 02:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so1096122mue for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 19:42:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jSxCy+eL0dvkJMwp2OCH5R/FAij1Jl9oJkIUsuaquiJ4cVUpkcdCPacxwqk4QfWfRqZhNMeYiJGveSN8guB8+ZYz1OMNQVqKWFIOIhjLCpFsLRw9jbD5LsuM/a0RTlSRqFeol79X/hqqOMHje0joaxj2BmUhh8HBJ6T+oWN66YA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mEnPI8xXGRVhUzZp9Q8fj8TVfJ85l2bj/xZB14MFPEB/O7Ciele/V9oetMC2VE6N/c284xnwRU6Kv6nSPCfNpnflEufRr64TmPELfYTs6CEsx3zUszwo5Pf/RB+8NeI6SO2kAtlPdPVABmGjc6sMnKTmVidWqg/ljkiWJGRPo7c= Received: by 10.82.180.17 with SMTP id c17mr9809788buf.1180320131823; Sun, 27 May 2007 19:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.185.16 with HTTP; Sun, 27 May 2007 19:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:42:11 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Kiffin Gish" In-Reply-To: <1180264792.23648.4.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1180264792.23648.4.camel@localhost> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade xorg 7.2 and extra x11 packages ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 02:42:13 -0000 On 27/05/07, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I have a question about the xorg 7.2 upgrade. > > I noticed that tons of extra x11 packages are being installed by default > for some reason, my packages count growing beyond 950! The whole process > is taking more than a day and there is no end in sight. > > Are they really required, and if not, how can I safely remove these > unwanted packages? Similarly, back when Gentoo switched to xorg 7.0 I suddenly discovered that I had to install xwd, xsetroot, and a myriad (not literal) of other programs just to get back the functionality included in xorg-clients under 6.9. It's a bit of a pain, but that's how life is now in the fantastic world of xorg. At least we have meta-ports to do the ugly bit for us. Figuring out which ones you can live without might be more effort than just letting it blithely compile. As a note, for me 7.2 added about 280 entries in /var/db/pkg. -- --