Re: mpd is missing a -minimal package

On 2026-07-21, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> i tried to install mpd on my OpenBSD 7.9 Server which failed after it tried to install like houndrets of dependencies including Xorg (Which i don't have and don't want on the server). That got me a bit by surprise as musicpd is a background daemon that plays music, i am unsure which package exactly pulls in all of Xorg but, but pretty sure that is highly optional.

At least FFmpeg, maybe others.

So, optional, but not _highly_ optional if you want wide codec handling.

> My use case is to stream music via httpd (https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins.html#httpd), all it needs to do is to decode/encode the music and stream it via HTTP, that should be possible without an X-Server.
>
> I think it would be benefitial to have a -minimal or -nox package that can be installed on servers as mpd is, in the end, a headless background daemon.

Packages mostly assume that you have xbase installed, as a number of
commonly used libraries (fontconfig/freetype) are found there. In
general no_x11 packages are onl6ly added when the software runs in text
or graphical mode depending on build options, not because of library
dependencies.


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