BLFS Trac wrote:
#1833: Unlisted dependency in Xorg-7.0.0
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Okay. I'm looking for a way to show all the interdependent packages. I
was thinking of supplying the 'minimum required' packages for each
section for a functional X Window System. Fortunately, I quickly
realized that this is a terrible idea. I have no doubt that my
interpretation of 'minimum required' is totally different than somebody
else's. :-)
Does anyone have any creative ideas (or even not so creative ones) that
can fill this void? IMO, a complete dependency list for each package
would be way too large for the book. I'm guessing somewhere around 1000
lines of text to mimic the style of perl modules in BLFS. Additionally,
as mentioned by Alexander in the same bug, there are runtime deps to
account for as well, so required, optional, runtime.
Since the work of deciding which packages to install is left to the user
(not unlike the whole of BLFS), perhaps a complete dependency list,
outside of the book, would be acceptable--in fact, I think it'd be
perfect wiki material, so maybe that is a good option.
I stopped typing at the previous sentence and went ahead and created a
template to use (taken from the wget scripts) in
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/XWindowSystemEnvironment
From there, click through to the Complete Dependencies. You can see
why this information will not fit directly in the book.
Deps for specific libs and progs should still be mentioned on other
package pages (like Mesa's requirements for libXxf86vm and libXi for
which this bug was originally created).
Anybody have other ideas for dep lists?
-- DJ Lucas
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