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Bug#749646: x11-xserver-utils depends on cpp



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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