[arch-general] xterm and xorg-apps

[Andrew Przepioski]

On 2/18/09, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at gmail.com> 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 at gmail.com> 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."