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djg1971

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 212

pacman -Syu wants to add tons of xorg packages I didn't have before

currently have the following xorg related packages:

xorg-apps 7.5-3
xorg-font-utils 7.5-2
xorg-fonts-100dpi 1.0.1-3
xorg-fonts-75dpi 1.0.1-3
xorg-fonts-alias 1.0.2-1
xorg-fonts-encodings 1.0.3-1
xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.1-1
xorg-res-utils 1.0.3-3
xorg-server 1.9.0-1
xorg-server-common 1.9.0-1
xorg-server-utils 7.5-6
xorg-twm 1.0.4-3
xorg-xauth 1.0.4-1
xorg-xdm 1.1.10-1
xorg-xinit 1.2.1-1
xorg-xkb-utils 7.5-2

if I let it, pacman -Syu will be adding:

xorg-luit-1.1.0-1  (new)
xorg-xpr-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-xwd-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-xwud-1.0.2-1   (new)
xorg-x11perf-1.5.2-1  (new)
xorg-xcursorgen-1.0.4-1   (new)
xorg-xkill-1.0.2-1   (new)
xorg-apps-7.6-1   
xorg-server-common-1.9.2-1
xorg-server-1.9.2-1 
xorg-iceauth-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-sessreg-1.0.6-1   (new)
xorg-xcmsdb-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-xbacklight-1.1.1-1   (new)
xorg-xgamma-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-xhost-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-xinput-1.5.2-1   (new)
xorg-xmodmap-1.0.5-1   (new)
xorg-xrandr-1.3.3-1   (new)
xorg-xrdb-1.0.6-1    (new)
xorg-xrefresh-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-xset-1.2.0-1   (new)
xorg-xsetroot-1.0.3-1   (new)
xorg-server-utils-7.6-1

that's 20 new packages,  which, far as I can tell from the description, shouldn't really be required.(?)  are these necessary?  seems kind of un-archlike to me.

theringmaster

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Registered: 2007-07-16

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Re: pacman -Syu wants to add tons of xorg packages I didn't have before

xorg-apps has been split into individual packages. It's ok to install those packages. I did at least.

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ZekeSulastin

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Registered: 2010-09-20

Posts: 266

Re: pacman -Syu wants to add tons of xorg packages I didn't have before

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … ver-utils/
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/xorg-apps/

Note the dependencies and the verbiage of the description.  If you were really curious, they've been discussing this on the arch-dev-public mailing list for a while.

Last edited by ZekeSulastin (2010-11-03 13:53:43)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: pacman -Syu wants to add tons of xorg packages I didn't have before

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107284