dependencies out of hand?

[Yuri Pankov]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 17:27:30 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On вівторок 20 листопад 2007, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> = New xorg-server utilizes sysutils/hal for hardware autodetection,
> glib20 = and cdrecord are dependencies of hal (can be turned off
> using = WITHOUT_HAL). It also needs dbus, polkit and so on. Not sure
> about gtk.
>
> Thanks, Yuri. But I could trace the dependencies myself. My point

Well, sorry for the noise.

> was, something is wrong if an unrelated utility such as cdrecord and
> a large (and frequently changing) library such as glib are both
> /required/ to build the X-server.
>
> Maybe, the WITHOUT_HAL knob should be more visible... Maybe, it
> should not require cdrecord by default.
>
> I don't have a solution -- I'm just pointing out a problem...
>
> 	-mi


Yuri