On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:53:38AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:10:01 +0100
>> Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> >  But I agree that some apps can be dropped by some people :) Another
>> > difference - I rely on xmodmap to be able to easily type certain
>> > obscure glyphs.  It's all about choice.
>>
>> And there's the rub; how can people make a choice if they don't have
>> the info about what depends on what? If we just present all the apps in
>> a long "take it or leave it" list people will have to work out for
>> themselves which ones they need. It's the kind of information that
>> should be in the book. Documenting dependencies is what the book is
>> good at.
>>
>> Andy
>
>  True.  But until we have a reliable list of dependencies, I would
> prefer to keep them all there.  Of course, if anybody already knows
> all the details, please shout.  When I last looked at the gentoo
> wiki for what the apps did (several years ago) it was incomplete and
> patchy.

This is probably not in the format you're looking for, but the jhbuild
module file for building Xorg contains dependencies.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/tree/xorg.modules

That may not be 100% accurate, but I fixed up a bunch of issues in it
a while back.

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Dan
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