(Very) bogus package dependencies

Marcin Cieslak saper at system.pl
Sun Dec 9 17:35:40 PST 2007


Alex Goncharov wrote:
> There has been a point recently made on a `freebsd-' list about
> unnecessary dependencies of the `xorg-server' package, it being
> dependent on `gnome' and `hal', for example. That's a valid point and
> I am with those who don't want this dependency to exist -- but at
> least this dependency can be somehow justified.
> 
> But I cannot find any justification for this:

HAL and D-Bus are needed to support input device hotplug - new feature
of X.org 7.3.

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/XInputHotplug

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal

cdr-tools may be needed (just my guess) to implement storage interface
for various CD media:

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/hal/hal/doc/spec/hal-spec.html?view=co&pathrev=HEAD#device-properties-storage-cdrom

--Marcin



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