Hi, * Michael Gilbert [Tue Jul 21, 2015 at 11:20:04PM -0400]: > > The packages x11-xserver-utils and x11-apps both depend on cpp. Since > > these are "miscellaneous assortment of X applications" and not > > development tools, I think they should not depend on cpp. > 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. I'd very much appreciate, if that patch (which moves cpp from Depends to Recommends) could be considered for inclusion. xrdb *seems* to work for me also without cpp available, and it also supports a `-nocpp` option and also supports specifying a preprocessor of custom choice via `-cpp ....`. x11-xserver-utils requires only ~523 kB of disk space, while cpp and its cpp-10 pulls in >26 MB of disk space, which is quite notable e.g. for live systems. :-/ regards -mika-
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