Xorg meta ports bloated dependencies

[Andrei Kolu]

Saturday 01 December 2007 05:20:40 kirjutas dexterclarke at safe-mail.net:
> I've just been helping somebody through an installation of
> 6.2-RELEASE and we've noticed the excessive dependencies of
> the xorg meta ports.
>
> xorg-server 1.4, for example, depends on:
>
> dbus-1.0.2_2, dbus-glib-0.74, glib-2.14.2, gnome_subr-1.0,
> hal-0.5.8.20070909 and even strange things like cdrtools-2.01_6.
>
> xorg-server 1.2 (the one distributed with the 6.2-RELEASE CD)
> doesn't have these dependencies.
>
> Putting it bluntly: why is this crap being dragged in? Neither
> of us use GNOME or anything that might require dbus. I can't see
> why xorg-server could possibly need any of the above?
>
> Anxiously awaiting a flaming argument.
>
And why xorg should include ugly fonts like adobe* an type1*?