On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:33:30PM +0200, Armin K. wrote: > > > > Are you sure all of these are required? Looking at the list, I install > > bdftopcf, iceauth, mkfontdir, mkfontscale, xcursorgen, xev, xkbcomp and > > xprop (8 apps). I have no need for luit, sessreg, setxkbmap, smproxy, > > x11perf, xauth, xbacklight, xcmsdb, xdpyinfo, xdriinfo, xgamma, xhost, > > xkbevd, xkbutils, xkill, xlsatoms, xlsclients, xmodmap, xpr, xrandr, > > xrdb, xrefresh, xset, xsetroot, xvinfo, xwd, xwininfo or xwud. That's > > 28 apps that are not needed. > > > > Andy > > > > Those are apps as released by upstream and as they always were there > minus xinput. I planned something else for xinput and some other apps. I > am sure xauth, luit, setxkbmap, xhost, xset are needed in most > environments. They are not really big problem to install, do not take > much space and do not take long to build.
I drop a different set, e.g. I drop bdftopcf (I don't use the traditional fonts) and luit (I don't use xterm itself : the book does, so I think luit is required in the book, depending on what languages / locales you need - I might be way off base). Conversely, I use xgamma so that photo prints bear *some* relationship to how the paper looks - saves me a lot of ink, and on my latest machines I also use it to reduce the worst colour-tints from my integrated graphics (must find more time to try my colorhug). But I agree that some apps can be dropped by some people :) Another difference - I rely on xmodmap to be able to easily type certain obscure glyphs. It's all about choice. At one time, gentoo had a reasonable explanation of what each app did in it's wiki. For many of our users, building xorg is an early part of the build. It would be a shame to slim it down so much that first-time users had to go back and add apps to get a set which covered their needs. Those of us who know what we are going to need can easily drop some of them. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
