Pulling Xorg dependencies on headless machine

nazriel spam at dzfl.pl
Sat Jul 27 17:19:19 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 28 July 2013 at 00:16:54 UTC, nazriel wrote:
> 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.

Err its installer not installers, pardon.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/blob/master/linux/dmd_deb.sh#L269


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