Bug#233768: xlibs: Too many extraneous depends
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El Jueves, 19 de Febrero de 2004 22:28, Erik Jacobson escribió:
> Package: xlibs
> Version: 4.3.0-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid
>
> It's highly annoying to have to install things like defoma and now various
> fonts, and even many of the rendering related libraries from stuff that
> depends on xlibs for one reason or another. (I try to avoid them, but one
> or two packages always manage to sneak in)
>
> Mainly I run a server system, and try to keep all the extra X crap off
> it as much as posisble. ;) But certain things liek GD like it (although
> the noxpm can be used most of the time)
>
> THis may be a wishlist item, but I just noticed a lot of extra X related
> stuff come down the pipe today that wasn't there before.
Don't worry :-)
xlibs now has become a transient package (i.e., a fake package that is
intended to make the transition to the new packages as smooth as possible).
- From the description of xlibs:
X Window System client libraries metapackage and XKB data
This package smooths upgrades from Debian 3.0 by depending on the individual
library packages into which each shared object formerly contained in this
package has been split.
This package is only depended upon by packages that haven't yet been compiled
against the new shared library packages.
Eventually, if you run deborphan, you should be able to remove xlibs and
whatever other graphical libraries dependencies you have, as the new xlibs
design is far more modular than 4.2.1 one.
What I mean is that you are seeing only what xlibs contained in 4.2.1 but
only now is splitted in.
Regards,
Ender.
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