hmm, on Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:45:06PM +0100, Nikolay Sturm said that > > maybe it's just me, i was making incorrect assumptions about > > what no_x11 means. > > Your assumptions are correct. teTeX_base,no_x11 is broken in that regard > and installing xbase is a workaround. > > > and if this is the way it will be, wouldn't it be a good idea to make > > an xlib38.tgz which would hold only the libs and nothing else, after > > all, isn't it the security mantra that don't install anything you > > won't use, and xbase is full of binaries which will be never used on a > > firewall? > > If you have enough disk space on your firewall/server, just install > xbase and be done. If you don't have the space, you are on your own > anyways and can just as well pull tetex/base/Makefile from -current and > build your own package with a correct no_x11 FLAVOR.
you put it as if teTeX was(before being fixed) the only case.. and of course teTeX is not really a firewall "required" program. when i said firewall, i rather meant packages like rrdtools (which at one point also need xbase) or other reporting tools needing x11 libs but really needing x11. -f -- sex is not the answer. sex is the question. "yes" is the answer.
