[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 00/26] Next batch, mostly updates

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 3 11:59:14 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 11:51 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 31 December 2012 09:45, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >> Noor Ahsan (1):
> >>   cairo: Adds libxext in X11DEPENDS.
> >
> > No, we shouldn't be depending on libxext. Ross will not be happy about
> > this. See Ross. Ideally we shouldn't have libxext in the images at all.
> 
> Cairo actually uses Xext, because that's where the SHM headers are.  I
> suspect you're thinking of libXt, which as you say should almost never
> be pulled in.

Yes, I knew there was something like that but evidently misremembered.
The patch is fine then.

Cheers,

Richard





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