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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  4 Mar 2010 21:53:33 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] cleaning up gentoo plan9port ebuild
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> > * Gentoo's plan9port also sets DEPEND="x11-apps/xauth".  Is xauth a
> > build or runtime dependency?
>
> I think it would be a runtime dependency, xauth pulls in all the X11
> libraries so you can X forward the GUIs from a headless machine. On the
> other hand, most of my binaries seem to be statically linked, so I'm not
> sure.

i think it's neither.  xauth is an application.  and the x libraries are not staticly linked:

; ldd sam
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff9d4a3000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff821485000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff821282000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff821067000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff820d18000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff821706000)

- erik