Your message dated Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:32:24 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#496247: libpango1.0-0 depends on libx11-6 although it
claims to be able to render for other means of output
has caused the Debian Bug report #496247,
regarding split libpangoxft out
to be marked as done.
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Package: libpango1.0-0
Version: 1.20.5-1
Severity: important
I need libpango as a dependency of librrd4 to generate
graphics from rrdtool for output on a (monitoring) web server.
Installing the current version of libpango1.0 would start introducing
X11 libraries on to the system which would be completely unnecessary
otherwise. I admit that I'm afraid to have a complete gnome system
within 2 years of package upgrades.
Either the description
" four different font backends:
...
- Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library"
or the dependency from libx11-6 and libxrender1
(and libx11-6 depending on x11-common in turn) seems to be at least bloating
in some uses of the package.
If the X11 dependency of some packages is achieved only by letting them depend
on libpango, would there be some other way? (yes, I guess that this is not a
package specific issue but rather a conceptual one).
Or do I completely misunderstand something?
regards
Olaf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libpango1.0-0 depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pn libcairo2 <none> (no description available)
ii libdatrie0 0.1.1-4 Double-array trie library
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
pn libpango1.0-common <none> (no description available)
pn libthai0 <none> (no description available)
pn libx11-6 <none> (no description available)
pn libxft2 <none> (no description available)
pn libxrender1 <none> (no description available)
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime
libpango1.0-0 recommends no packages.
libpango1.0-0 suggests no packages.
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Hi
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008, Olaf Schulz wrote:
> I need libpango as a dependency of librrd4 to generate
> graphics from rrdtool for output on a (monitoring) web server.
>
> Installing the current version of libpango1.0 would start introducing
> X11 libraries on to the system which would be completely unnecessary
> otherwise. I admit that I'm afraid to have a complete gnome system
> within 2 years of package upgrades.
>
> Either the description
> " four different font backends:
> ...
> - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library"
>
> or the dependency from libx11-6 and libxrender1
> (and libx11-6 depending on x11-common in turn) seems to be at least bloating
> in some uses of the package.
>
> If the X11 dependency of some packages is achieved only by letting them depend
> on libpango, would there be some other way? (yes, I guess that this is not a
> package specific issue but rather a conceptual one).
Thanks for your report.
% ldd -r /usr/lib/librrd.so.4 | awk '{ print $1 }' >librrd4
% ldd -r /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 | awk '{ print $1 }' | grep -v -xFf
librrd4
libXft.so.2
So that's the only thing which you'd save if I were to split
libpangoxft out; given the ridiculously large size of the librrd4 dep
tree, I don't think it would be useful and am closing this bug.
Please reopen if necessary.
Bye
--
Loïc Minier
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