Xorg meta ports bloated dependencies

[Yuri Pankov]

Andrei Kolu wrote:
> 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*?

Because it IS a *META* port and should install everything that is part
of xorg distribution? You are free to install the ports that you need,
use WITHOUT_HAL for xorg-server, etc. And there are many people who
think that ttf fonts are ugly, and bitmap and type1 fonts are more readable.


Yuri