Re: [dcc-devel] Re: additional X packages?

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 13:36 +0900, Simon Horman [Horms] wrote:
> So in a nutshell, the LSB drags in X but only mandates
> funtionality of a very small portion of it.

You bring up a good point.  The LSB does not mandate xvfb in the
specification, but requires it be present for the tests, so you can use
any xvfb you can get working.

Looking in the spec, none of the X utilities are required.  So I wonder
if xlsfonts can be treated the same way as xvfb: not required as part of
the distro, but must be pulled in from some other source to run the
tests.

It's my understanding that xbase-clients is the problem package, in that
it pulls in all the other extra deps, so if we can get rid of a
requirement for xbase-clients, we should nearly eliminate the problem.

(We might even be able to get away with not requiring the fonts, but
several tests fail if no fonts are installed, and I don't think it's
worth the small savings.)