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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> But wouldn't it add to entropy, next time I do a "emerge -NDu world"? |
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> No, if you look inside the xorg-x11 ebuild, you'll it depends on |
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> xorg-server (the actual X server itself), a bunch of common apps |
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> (xauth, xhost, xrandr, etc), 10 or so libs and 4 font related packages. |
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> So all that gets installed and no other package relies on xorg-x11 |
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> directly, they depend on eg xorg-server instead. So when |
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> you 'emerge -NDu world' the dependencies are satisfied and all is well |
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> in portage-land. |
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> As long as no ebuilds do stupid things like depend on xorg-x11 directly, |
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> all will continue to work correctly even if xorg-x11 is removed |
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OK, thanks. |
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Jorge Almeida |
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