Re: pkg/58280: xbase needed by xentools418-20231116nb1

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) writes:

>  >     calculating dependencies...done.
>  >     /usr/X11R7/lib/libpixman-1.so.2, needed by xentools418-20231116nb1 is not present in this system.
> 
> Yes, the prebuilt packages are built against native X11. It might be
> nice if there were another set of binary packages built with pkgsrc
> X11, but that's probably not happening anytime soon.

There are two dependencies.

xentools depends on python and python is built with X support
(which is 'native' by default). You could build a python package
without disabled x11 option.

xentools itself comes with a private instance of qemu, which
has the dependency on pixman. Here also the 'native' version
is used, but the pixman package itself would just create
more dependencies on X. That could probably be 'modular X'
but that really gain nothing but extra work compared to
installing xbase.

Qemu needs pixman for graphics interfaces (VNC, Gtk, Spice, ...)
and that could be compiled out. You'd probably lose the VNC
console for the guests, which for some guests is necessary.