Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:15:57 +0200 From: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg meta ports bloated dependencies Message-ID: <200712011015.58979.antik@bsd.ee> In-Reply-To: <N1-sUXCn9R-0s@Safe-mail.net> References: <N1-sUXCn9R-0s@Safe-mail.net>
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Saturday 01 December 2007 05:20:40 kirjutas dexterclarke@safe-mail.net: > 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. > And why xorg should include ugly fonts like adobe* an type1*?
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