[Solved] Minimal Xorg for working system

Question

Hello,
Maybe somebody could help me to install minimal xorg packages, since it install lots of them (drivers for nvidia, ati ... I have intel, xcalc xterm and other but I do not need them).
I want to have really minimal Arch+E17 based OS, all is working (no mouse scroll on touchpad, but that is minimal problem, althought ~~~xorg-input-synaptic is installed and other inputs)
I have already mentioned that I have intel GPU and intel CPU (dual core), do not know what other stuff is required.
Extra:
I am using .xinitrc and slim for logging in to E17 windows manager. Slim is launched through daemons.
Searching forum was no luck, there were few responds to similar problem, but they did not had real answer
Last edited by vaidotas203 (2012-04-14 13:22:24)

Answer 1

Gusar wrote:I'm not talking to you as if you're an idiot. But I really didn't see the sense of listing packages that won't get installed anyway unless you specifically install them. That's the "unnecessary complicating" I mentioned earlier.
Again, this entirely depends on the OP's definition of minimal.
If he considers minimal getting rid of bloat and unnecessary stuff in Xorg - than almost certainly, he will have to recompile it. Which would mean everything i have said is * *necessarily complicated* and what i have listed above actually makes more sense than what you are saying, because compiling xorg-server in ABS *will* compile all of those other packages (like xdmx, etc ~ why even waste time compiling if you don't plan to install them, anyway?). Not only that, but all of the stuff he may not need (aside from the 'separate' packages) will be compiled in (like kdrive/ipv6/etc) and increase bloat.
So i was recommending how to strip xorg-server a little. that is all.
But you are correct, if he is just looking to remove a package or two, obviously what you say makes sense. - but is that really a 'minimal xorg' ~ i don't think so.
cheerz
EDIT: you edited you post;
Gusar wrote:Neither will you see it for any other package, despite many of them having ipv6 support. If you go that far into minimalism, then pretty much all stock Arch packages are unsuitable.
I don't consider changing a few compile options, and using some flags as 'going to far into minimalism'.
Gusar wrote:Nor will one have it installed if going with just the four packages I listed. If you check the PKBUILD, only xephyr uses kdrive stuff. And xephyr is a separate package.
Well, quite frankly - if you are going to compile xorg-server from ABS, and don't plan on using those features -> it makes sense to disable-kdrive and xephyr, as you are just wasting your time compiling them, if you don't plan to install/use them anyway.
but anyway, this doesn't really matter, as we don't know what the OP means by 'minimal'.
Last edited by triplesquarednine (2012-04-14 12:27:29)