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FS#47035 - Xorg-server missing dependancy

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Boris Staletic (bstaletic) - Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 10:11 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 13:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Xorg-server package depends on libdbus and systemd-logind (and possibly on libsystemd), but those are not listed as dependancies. Xorg-server, if packaged this way, can't start for people replacing systemd and not using some kind of systemd compatibility package that provides logind. In addition, if one wants to get rid of dbus and recompiles only the packages pacman says depend on dbus one will not be able to start xorg-server.
I don't know if xorg-server depends on libsystemd as I've removed all of systemd in one go.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Uninstall systemd and libsystemd
2. Uninstall libdbus
3. run "startx" (without quotes)
4. xorg complains about missing libdbus
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 13:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 11:31 GMT
xorg-server depends on systemd through xf86-input-evdev or xf86-input-libinput. Systemd in turn depends on dbus which depends on libdbus, so all dependencies are covered.

If you want to remove base system components and recompile packages to remove base system dependencies, it's your task to make it work, not ours.
Comment by Boris Staletic (bstaletic) - Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 12:58 GMT
I have not realized the dependancy chain looks like that, so xorg-server complaints puzzled me for a seconds. Thanks for the explanation.

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