Armin K. wrote: > 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.
The MTA could be done easily enough with an entity. > 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. For first time users, I recommend building everything in Xorg except those drivers not needed. I have no problem with adding a note or a descriptive paragraph to packages like twm, xterm, xcursor, and fonts saying that these are only needed for testing (or exploring). OTOH, I like to build these because it makes the testing easier at the end of the section. It doesn't take that much time or resources. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
