Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:42:11 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade xorg 7.2 and extra x11 packages ... Message-ID: <d7195cff0705271942t3f1cf354oba46412246495069@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1180264792.23648.4.camel@localhost> References: <1180264792.23648.4.camel@localhost>
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On 27/05/07, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> 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. -- --
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