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Agent69

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Registered: 2006-05-26

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Urxvt Needs GCC?

I installed Urxvt and I was surprised that it needed GCC as a dependency. Since I try to maintain a minimalist Arch install, I was wondering if anyone knows why it needs GCC?

delphiki

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Registered: 2007-11-17

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Re: Urxvt Needs GCC?

@Agent69: Apparently, the PKGBUILD from which the rxvt-unicode package is built from still has gcc as a dependency, but it looks like the devs are working on changing that soon.

Not sure if that totally answers your question, but the link (i hope) should give you an idea about it.

dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: Urxvt Needs GCC?

not only that but since gcc-libs is part of base it might be skipped and depend only on libxft

edit: still even if u try to maintain a minimalist Arch install i cant see how u can achieve that without having most packages from the base-devel group installed.

Last edited by dolby (2007-12-31 15:38:18)

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Agent69

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Registered: 2006-05-26

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Re: Urxvt Needs GCC?

I would have to check when I get home but as far as I know, I don't have much if any of base-devel installed.

EDIT: Thanks Delphiki.

Last edited by Agent69 (2007-12-31 16:22:23)