Pulling Xorg dependencies on headless machine

nazriel spam at dzfl.pl
Sat Jul 27 17:16:53 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 28 July 2013 at 00:09:04 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 02:03:47AM +0200, nazriel wrote:
> [...]
>> I am afraid that DMD is the one pulling in X stuff.
>> 
>> I suspect it may be because of -man switch. That would explain 
>> why
>> dmd wants xdg-open on Debian.
>
> Gah. I say the .deb should just Recommends: xdg-utils, not 
> Depends:. As
> far as compiling D code is concerned, dmd works just fine 
> without ever
> using the -man option. Having xdg-open installed is a 
> *recommendation*,
> not a requirement for compiling D code!
>
> As for what to do with this dependency, just use apt-get
> --no-install-recommends. :)
>
>
> T

Will you do the honors for D-Programming-Language/installers or 
should I? Or maybe we should wait for others opinion on that? Tho 
it is no-brainer.


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