Pierre Labastie wrote:
Hi,
As you might already know, I usually use automated builds with jhalfs BLFS
tools to build and test packages in BLFS. But ATM, I am interested in building
a minimal LXQt desktop, to see whether the advertised "lightweight" of LXQt is
true.
Since I try to build the minimal set of packages, I do not build all
recommended dependencies, but I tend to rely on the book for required
dependencies. That's how I found something weird with the required deps of
xorg-server:
xorg-fonts and xkeyboard-config are both deemed as required, while I have not
seen a place where they are needed during xorg-server building. Of course, I
guess apps like xterm and xinit need those, but not xorg-server per se, does
it? So I propose to move those to recommended, but I ask on the list since I
may be missing something.
I don't mind you doing that. I do not remember the details of why they
are listed as required, but the requirements may have changed over the years.
There is also a minor point: xcb-util-keysyms is both in recommended and
optional deps. And it is said that it is used for Xnest, but configure only
tests libX11, libXau, libXext and libXdmcp... So I propose to remove
xcb-util-keysyms from recommended deps and to remove the reference to Xnest.
Same comment as above.
I'll note that we do not check every combination of dependencies at every
update. Having extra dependencies does not really hurt anything except
for a minor build time issue for the user if doing a minimum build. Most
users just build Xorg in order and need almost everything anyway.
-- Bruce
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