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aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

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package question

i was wondering why xorg-xserver as dependecy --> xcursor-themes ....doesnt he as a default one?

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TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

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Re: package question

It seems that as of xorg-server 1.4.0.90-9: nope. I've looked at

pacman -Ql xorg-server

and

pacman -Ql xcursor-themes

and there were no cursors in xorg-server package.

EDIT: I've found out that really needed cursor (the default one) is in the package xorg-fonts-misc.

Last edited by TheBodziO (2008-04-25 20:44:19)

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: package question

X doesn't need an XCursor cursor to draw the cursor. It has a fairly large set of built-in cursors (see the list in '/usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h' and switch using 'xsetroot -cursor_name foo'). The Starship Enterprise is my favorite.

So yeah, that's probably an unneeded dependency.

TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

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Re: package question

X doesn't need an XCursor cursor to draw the cursor. It has a fairly large set of built-in cursors (see the list in '/usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h' and switch using 'xsetroot -cursor_name foo'). The Starship Enterprise is my favorite.

That's true. X don't need xcursor to draw the cursor but to locate and load it.

I'm not sure if the "built-in" is a good word… I think "bundled" would be better (/usr/share/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz belonging to xorg-fonts-misc).

I like the trek too .

So yeah, that's probably an unneeded dependency.

I concur! Definitely unneeded!

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