Re: Several questionable packages installed on fresh system

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On Monday, 10 July 2023 at 11:00, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
[...]
> Can't comment on all the packages you listed, but the C preprocessor
> (CPP) is indeed required by xrdb (that's an option in xrdb, see "-cpp"
> in man xrdb) and xrdb itself is required by GDM:
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdm/blob/rawhide/f/gdm.spec#_80
> 
> GDM uses xrdb from its data/Init.in and data/Xsession.in:
> 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/blob/main/data/Xsession.in#L118-129
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/blob/main/data/Init.in#L31-34
> 
> Please note that these commands all use "xrdb -nocpp" so cpp is not
> actually used there, but the package dependencies still pull it of
> course.

xrdb does not hard-depend on cpp, only recommends it:
$ rpm -qR xrdb |grep cpp
$ rpm -q --recommends xrdb
cpp
$ 

On my system, only gcc hard-requires cpp.

Regards,
Dominik
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