On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Steven Penny <svnp...@gmail.com> wrote: > and have been using different versions of that script since. Installing Tcl/Tk > with X11 is non-trivial: > > tcl 2,181,674 > tcl-tk 5,691,785 > libX11_6 745,228 > libXau6 18,626 > libXdmcp6 124,932 > libXext6 220,188 > libXft2 42,224 > libXrender1 29,180 > libXss1 13,892 > libexpat1 58,104 > libfontconfig1 113,264 > libfreetype6 369,440 > libpng16 156,684 > libxcb1 35,116 > total compressed size: 9,800,337 > Based on what I see getting updated, and some of the behaviors of the resulting install on my three installations, that may be a low estimate of the impact of X Windows. I'm not sure if the server is using freetype, fontconfig or expat (it's conceivable) but let's assume that the server does create those dependencies because a client is not required to use any of them. The png library would seem to be no part of X. And then there is the latest visible manifestation of starting X, the X logo in the corner of the screen.
@Yaakov, many of us have a Cygwin requirement imposed on them for reasons that maybe even you would argue against. Given that Cygwin runs in a world where using GDI is economical and using X is costly, and given that downloading and installing updates is a burden that seems to grow ever larger as packages sprout dependencies on each other, I would like to see the emergence of a new consensus that clarifies to what extent X Windows is important to Cygwin as a whole. It clearly is important to some programs but is it so essential to the Cygwin ecosystem that the burden of using X is to be imposed on so many unwilling Cygwin users? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple