Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:08:28 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg meta ports bloated dependencies Message-ID: <4751248C.4040500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200712011015.58979.antik@bsd.ee> References: <N1-sUXCn9R-0s@Safe-mail.net> <200712011015.58979.antik@bsd.ee>
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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. Yuri
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