Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 17:48:16 +0200 From: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg meta ports bloated dependencies Message-ID: <200712011748.17573.antik@bsd.ee> In-Reply-To: <4751248C.4040500@gmail.com> References: <N1-sUXCn9R-0s@Safe-mail.net> <200712011015.58979.antik@bsd.ee> <4751248C.4040500@gmail.com>
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Saturday 01 December 2007 11:08:28 kirjutas Yuri Pankov: > Andrei Kolu wrote: > > 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*? > > Because it IS a *META* port and should install everything that is part > of xorg distribution? You are free to install the ports that you need, > use WITHOUT_HAL for xorg-server, etc. And there are many people who > think that ttf fonts are ugly, and bitmap and type1 fonts are more > readable. > I'd like to see choices in metaport- ncurses based menus with packages we really need. It is impossible to install Xorg without metaport (anyone have done that at all?)- 300+ separate ports IIRC. After removing unnecessary ports (fonts FE) and later you may try to upgrade Xorg to newer version then package dependency would be broken... Or how can I tell metaport how to NOT INSTALL some crap I don't need. Andrei
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