Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:20:40 -0500 From: dexterclarke@Safe-mail.net To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Xorg meta ports bloated dependencies Message-ID: <N1-sUXCn9R-0s@Safe-mail.net>
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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. -- dc
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