Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/1/19 2:33 PM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > > In the past it was not uncommon for non-X programs in base to have > > dependencies in Xenocara. Are you certain that this is no longer so? > > > > Yup
Never been the case. No base program uses a include or library from X. There is 1 feature that has a runtime dependency, and there used to be a 2nd one which was deleted. X needs base, but base does not need X. The real issue is we rarely create non-X variations of ports. Users can install a package intending to only used the non-X aspects of such software, but if it links against X ... if they avoided install the X sets in particularily xbase, then they are SOL. So, I'll say it again: people saving disk space in this way are largely being foolish, or selecting the practice of "non-default install, so you own all the pieces". When people make non-default changes to their systems they should think long and hard before submitting any bug reports of any kind, since the problem could be caused by their own decisions...
