On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:05 -0800, Andrew Przepioski wrote: >> How come xorg-apps is a dependency for xterm? Been a lil' curious for >> awhile and have tried figuring it out, but found nothing so I figured >> I would ask here. > > xorg-apps contains luit, which is some kind of dependency to xterm. I'm > not an xterm user, so I don't know anything more than this about it. > > Oh right, thats for unicode. Since i used to be an xterm user, and i have researched this, see the Gentoo ebuild: http://gentoo-portage.com/AJAX/Ebuild/54621/View Its very identical to Arch's PKGBUILD. Luit is needed for unicode but xterm works just fine without it installed. Without xmessage koi8xterm doesnt work at all. -- Greg
