Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennej...@freenet.de> wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> > ... Cynthia Flynn wrote:
> [snip - syslinux pulls in too much X11 stuff]
> > I think the extra dependencies that you find listed for syslinux:
> > [snip]
> > come directly from mtools ...
>
> Yeah.  It looks like mtools uses X11 by default, which IMHO is
> incorrect.  Instead it should have an option to turn X11 _on_,
> rather than one for turning it _off_, as it currently does.

IMO it is a POLA violation for mtools to depend on X11 *at all*.

Instead of having an option, maybe the port should be split so that
mtools itself just provides the code to access FAT filesystems, and
(say) mtools-gui does the fancy display stuff.
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