Re: Bug#151613: xauth + ssh
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:48:21PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> IMHO, this is not necessary. The X11 library overhead is a red
>> herring. In most situations, you need them anyway to run X11
>> applications. I find the dependencies on xlibmesa3 and libdps1 more
>> troublesome, and it shouldn't be too complicated to remove them.
>
> No, but I'm not going to do that.
Why? They cause most of the bloat.
> It would take about half an hour for someone who bellyaches about this
> problem to make a source package out of xc/programs/xauth, build-depend
> on xlibs-dev and xutils, and have an alternative xauth package that is
> statically linked against libXmuu, libXext, and libX11.
Why do you think static linking is required? In the situation that
sparked this thread (xauth + ssh), dynamic linking is enough because
on the remote systems, xlibs is required anyway, otherwise you
wouldn't have any applications to which you can forward connections
(some obscure cases involving clx ignored).
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