On 12/27/2013 01:26 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Hi, > > As you may have seen, I have added xorg-env as a dependency of xbitmaps. But > since xbitmaps is required by Xorg applications, which also requires mesalib, > which requires xcb-proto and the like, it may be not necessary. However, > theoretically, a user following the dependencies for X server backward may end > up building xbitmaps as the first package in the X chapter (I agree that the > probability is small). Furthermore xscreensaver requires only Xorg > applications (well, that is king of weird to me, but Armin has arguments about > the server running remotely). In this case, the probability is slightly > higher. >
Well, if not anything, please just seperate runtime from build time deps as done with everything else. For example, I don't install anything after Xorg Drivers (where I install 5 driver packages, 2 gpus, 2 input and wacom driver for GNOME), and I skip xcursor-themes and xorg fonts since I much prefer using ttf-fonts and dmz-cursor-theme (from debian). As Bruce mentioned, the X-Window-System dependency might be interpreted as everything from Introduction to Testing in the chapter or shortly the entire chapter. You could create a "virtual package" (the kind of packages that "provide" something in distros out there) where it would depend on a Xorg Server, a window manager and a terminal emulator, where you could choose a window manager/desktop environment and terminal emulator from any of the available in the book. Furthermore, I'd like to suggest adding same "virtual" package runtime dependency for Xorg Server, one should be for an input driver, where other should be for a DDX driver (xf86-video-*). One example of a "virtual package" I am proposing is "a MTA" dependency, where it lists all of the packages which provide sendmail command. It is just a thought, and might be worth to implement but it's something worth mentioning. After all, it should be our purpose to teach people how something works together if I recall correctly. > There is also something which bothers me: when a dependency refers to X Window > system, where should the user begin? The id "x-window-system" refers to the > beginning of the chapter, but nowhere it is said what should be built to get a > working X installation (actually, the xcb-util-xxx packages are not needed for > a basic installation, and neither are xclock, twm, xterm nor xinit, although > the last four are useful to do the first tests of Xorg). > > BTW, shouldn't twm be added to the deps of xinit, at the same level as xterm > and xclock? Right now xterm and xclock are "required (runtime only)", and twm > is not mentioned. Strictly speaking, none of the three are required, even at > runtime: you could build another terminal (say rxvt), forget about xclock, > build another WM, and start them in ~/.xinitrc. Of course, If you keep the > defaults, xclock, xterm and twm are started by xinit? So I suggest to put them > as "recommended (used by default at runtime)". > > Regards > Pierre > -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
