On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:20:04 -0400 Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> wrote: > Here is a trivial patch that makes it possible for the user to choose > (as a non-default option) to exclude cpp packages from xorg using > systems, at the cost of possibly breaking xrdb.
With a patch moving the dep to a recommends it would be useful if xrdb was configured with something like: --with-cpp=/usr/bin/cpp,/usr/bin/mcpp so that mcpp could be used as a lightweight alternative. cpp-5 currently carries this giant unstripped library in stretch: $ du -h /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/cc1 130M /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/cc1