X client without X server

[Olivier Nicole]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:47:16 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> $ pkg info -xd xterm
>> xterm-293:
>>         xproto-7.0.24
>>         xextproto-7.2.1
>>         renderproto-0.11.1
>>         printproto-1.0.5
>>         libxcb-1.9.1
>>         libXrender-0.9.8
>>         libXpm-3.5.10
>>         libXp-1.0.2,1
>>         libXext-1.3.2,1
>>         libXdmcp-1.1.1
>>         libXau-1.0.8
>>         libX11-1.6.0,1
>>         libSM-1.2.1,1
>>         libICE-1.0.8,1
>>         kbproto-1.0.6
>>         libXt-1.1.4,1
>>         libXmu-1.1.1,1
>>         libXaw-1.0.11,2
>>         libXft-2.3.1
>>         fontconfig-2.9.0,1
>>         expat-2.0.1_2
>>         freetype2-2.4.12_1
>>         pkgconf-0.9.2_1
>>         pcre-8.33
>>         libpthread-stubs-0.3_3
>>
>> Obviously xterm does not depend on xorg-server.
>
> But one of its dependencies might.

That make no sense, xterm may (and certainly does) depend on the same
libraries as the X server, but there is no way xterm depends on X
server itself.

I can manually remove X server and the fonts and xclac... and the
system is still running very well (and updating without trying to
reinstall X server...)

Best regards,

Olivier