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From: Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:22:57
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0610120916460.27255@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?! by Richard Fish
1 On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Richard Fish wrote:
2
3 > On 10/11/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> wrote:
4 >> I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11
5 >> (version 7.0-r1).
6 >> Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!)
7 >> I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal?
8 >
9 > xorg-x11 is just a meta-build now with modular X, and nothing in the
10 > tree is really supposed to depend on it. Packages are supposed to
11 > depend on those parts of x.org that they really use. So unmerging
12 > xorg-x11-7.0-r1 will not break anything:
13 >
14 But wouldn't it add to entropy, next time I do a "emerge -NDu world"?
15 --
16 Jorge Almeida
17 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?! Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>