[arch-general] xterm and xorg-apps

[Andrew Przepioski]

On 2/18/09, Andrew Przepioski <aprzepioski at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
>

Ah! My bad! I didn't see it down there. :\