On 2/18/09, Andrew Przepioski <aprzepioski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/18/09, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 01:19:18PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Andrew Przepioski >>> <aprzepioski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > To me, when I was googling about xterm trying to >>> > determine why xorg-apps was included, what feature is included with >>> > xterm that makes it need xorg-apps, I couldn't find anything >>> >>> Might be helpful to use namcap in cases like this (gmail will probably >>> wrap the output below). Though in the case of xterm, it doesn't help >>> us - svn logs would be the next best bet >>> >>> $ namcap -i /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xterm-241-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz >>> xterm E: Dependency detected and not included (libxmu) from files >>> ['usr/bin/xterm'] >>> xterm E: Dependency detected and not included (bash) from files >>> ['usr/bin/koi8rxterm', 'usr/bin/uxterm'] >>> xterm W: Dependency included and not needed (libxaw) >>> xterm W: Dependency included but already satisfied (ncurses) >>> xterm W: Dependency included and not needed (xorg-apps) >>> xterm I: Script link detected (bash) in file >>> ['usr/bin/koi8rxterm', 'usr/bin/uxterm'] >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm'] link-level dependence on libxmu >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm', 'usr/bin/resize'] link-level >>> dependence on ncurses >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm', 'usr/bin/resize'] link-level >>> dependence on glibc >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm'] link-level dependence on libx11 >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm'] link-level dependence on fontconfig >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm'] link-level dependence on libice >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm'] link-level dependence on libxt >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/xterm'] link-level dependence on libxft >>> xterm I: File ['usr/bin/koi8rxterm', 'usr/bin/uxterm'] link-level >>> dependence on bash >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (zlib) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (expat) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libxcb) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (inputproto) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libxau) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (tzdata) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libxdmcp) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (renderproto) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (glibc) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (fontconfig) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libice) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libxt) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libxext) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (kbproto) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (xextproto) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (ncurses) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (xproto) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (xcb-proto) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (readline) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (kernel-headers) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (freetype2) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libx11) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (e2fsprogs) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libxrender) >>> xterm I: Dependency covered by dependences from link dependence >>> (libsm) >>> xterm I: Depends as namcap sees them: depends=(libxmu bash libxft) >>> xterm E: Missing license >> >> See my comments on http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7781 >> I dont know if google returns results like these, but the bug tracker >> search does if you look for xorg-apps, or xterm. >> xorg-apps were a dependency for xterm before 230, even if it was uneeded, >> it is also one today. >> >> -- >> Greg >> > > Yeah, I bumped into link when I was searching, but it doesn't mention > anywhere exactly why xorg-apps is needed for xterm. From what I can > see, it just mentions at one part that xorg-apps is a dependency of > xterm and would automatically come with it. > > "Note: "xorg-apps" will be automatically installed as a dependency of > "xterm", but I assume that implicitly relying on this sub-dependency > to continue to exist in the future would be less preferable than > listing it explicitly." > Ah! My bad! I didn't see it down there. :\
