On 2008-03-31, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running 4.1 on several servers, one thing I found was the
> surprise on needing the X package to install some of the non x-windows
> ports due to dependencies within that tree.  I think it was for the
> graphics libraries, either way, I installed the x packages and all is
> well.

GD. This still needs X in 4.3 for libfontconfig and libfreetype.

> But I remember reading in a FAQ or release notes somewhere that this
> was a mistake and would be fixed in the next version of OpenBSD (ie,
> remove the dependency on the x-windows system for these libraries).

In 4.1 libexpat was in ports. In 4.2 it moved to xbase; in 4.3 it will
be in base. This affects some ports but not GD.

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