Why is x11-servers/xorg-server dependent on libXaw, among others?

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:
> On 2009-Dec-21 12:30:30 -0200, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Yes, here I go gain with another attempt to reduce package
>>dependencies. I'm attempting to understand why the xorg-server port
>>depends on libX11, libXaw, libXmu, libXt, libXpm and libXext. I'd like
>>to remove at least libXaw and libXt from the dependencies. What do
>>you, x11 maintaires, think about this?
>
> There are no obvious runtime dependencies on libX11, libXaw, libXmu,
> libXt, libXpm or libXext (via either ldd or lsof on a running Xserver).
>
> As an initial check, you could try removing those dependencies from the
> Makefile and see if xorg-server builds and runs in a clean environment.
> A more thorough check would require checking against all input and
> video drivers.

I already removed the libs from the Makefile and both xorg-server,
xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse and xf86-video-intel run
flawlessly. I will try to build all input and video drivers on a clean
chroot environment and look for dependencies.