> *But* in this case, it seems hard to avoid. As I understand it, the > *whole* mtools package makes 'parasitic' use of the X protocol
Point of information: only floppyd itself is linked against any X library. The others, which *doing* clever things with xauth tokens [according to the docs, I haven't read the code], don't actually link any X libraries and thus don't cause any X dependencies. Only floppyd itself talks to a real X server (using this to validate the xauth cookie, which is twisted and sick :) So splitting off floppyd *is* possible, but may or may not be desirable.