On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Alan McKinnon wrote:
But wouldn't it add to entropy, next time I do a "emerge -NDu world"?
No, if you look inside the xorg-x11 ebuild, you'll it depends on
xorg-server (the actual X server itself), a bunch of common apps
(xauth, xhost, xrandr, etc), 10 or so libs and 4 font related packages.
So all that gets installed and no other package relies on xorg-x11
directly, they depend on eg xorg-server instead. So when
you 'emerge -NDu world' the dependencies are satisfied and all is well
in portage-land.
As long as no ebuilds do stupid things like depend on xorg-x11 directly,
all will continue to work correctly even if xorg-x11 is removed
OK, thanks.
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