xorgproto header installation conflicts

Matthieu Herrb matthieu at herrb.eu
Mon Nov 25 06:53:37 UTC 2019


On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:04:12PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:44:11AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > On 11/19/19 8:13 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > > One particular example: libXxf86misc is still used by 8 packages in
> > > pkgsrc, but the necessary xf86miscproto headers are not installed by
> > > xorgproto except with --enable-legacy.
> > 
> > Do all those packages strongly require it?  Or do they just need to drop
> > the dependency now?
> 
> So I checked them and found that some did not actually use the code.
> The remaining three that had code to support libXxf86misc could live
> without it (xdpyinfo, xscreensaver, xset), so disabled it and removed
> the libXxf86misc library from pkgsrc.
> 
> > > Why is xf86miscproto in the legacy set?
> > 
> > Because the server side was removed 11 years ago:
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/22e64108ec63ba77779891f8df237913ef9ca731
> > 
> > so any client support is unusable dead code, unless you're still running
> > an Xserver older than Xorg 1.6.
> 
> Thanks for the hint!
> 
> Is anything else from this list effectively dead?

Hi,

At least libxevie and libxf86misc are  dead. I haven't found anything
in OpenBSD  ports that depends on them and the X server side of the
code has been removed long ago.

> 
> libAppleWM
> libFS
> libICE
> libSM
> libX11
> libXScrnSaver
> libXau
> libXaw
> libXaw3d
> libXcomposite
> libXcursor
> libXdamage
> libXdmcp
> libXevie 
> libXext
> libXfixes
> libXfont2
> libXft
> libXi
> libXinerama
> libXmu
> libXpm
> libXpresent
> libXrandr
> libXrender
> libXres
> libXt
> libXtst
> libXv
> libXvMC
> libXxf86dga
> libXxf86misc
> libXxf86vm
> libdmx
> libdrm
> libxkbfile
> libxkbui
> 
> Thanks,
>  Thomas
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