On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 23:46:25 -0400 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. > Everything seems to be working normally since then, > but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to 'emerge -cpv', ie > > 131005 x11-apps/bitmap-1.0.6 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-apps/sessreg-1.0.7 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-apps/xkbutils-1.0.3 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-apps/xkill-1.0.3 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.2 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-apps/xrandr-1.3.5 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-apps/xrefresh-1.0.4 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-apps/xvinfo-1.1.1 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-libs/libXp-1.0.1 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] > 131005 x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.7 [for nvidia-drivers] > 131005 x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.4 [for mesa : otiose] > 131005 x11-proto/printproto-1.0.5 [for xorg-x11 LO : otiose] > > (from my home-made list of installed + removed pkgs). > > Presumably, these have all been absorbed into other Xorg pgms. > Is this correct ? x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r1 here. I still have those packages; they're pulled in by x11-base/xorg-x11, which is the main Xorg meta-package that pulls in xorg-server. As for whether you need them, I think that's your call. I haven't tried xorg-server without xorg-x11 in a while, but lots of those utilities are useful (xkill, xrandr...). Cheers, Khumba
