xorgproto header installation conflicts

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Nov 19 19:44:11 UTC 2019


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?

> 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.

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