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On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:18, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> > On 10/11/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> wrote: |
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> >> I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove |
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> >> x11-base/xorg-x11 (version 7.0-r1). |
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> >> Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!) |
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> >> I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this |
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> >> normal? |
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> > xorg-x11 is just a meta-build now with modular X, and nothing in |
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> > the tree is really supposed to depend on it. Packages are supposed |
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> > to depend on those parts of x.org that they really use. So |
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> > unmerging xorg-x11-7.0-r1 will not break anything: |
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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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alan |
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