See: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1164352.html Steam needs glx to work. USE="minimal" disables glx among other things. By extracting glx as a separate USE flag, xorg builds 572 files as opposed to 625.
I checked what IUSE=minimal controls, and it seems like... not much: > CDEPEND=" > ... > !minimal? ( > >=media-libs/mesa-18[X(+),egl(+),gbm(+)] > >=media-libs/libepoxy-1.5.4[X,egl(+)] > ) > ... > " > > REQUIRED_USE="!minimal? ( > || ( ${IUSE_SERVERS} ) > ) > ... > " > > src_configure() { > ... > local emesonargs=( > ... > $(meson_use !minimal dri1) > $(meson_use !minimal dri2) > $(meson_use !minimal dri3) > $(meson_use !minimal glamor) > $(meson_use !minimal glx) > ... > ) > ... > } This looks like, if you need glx support, you're also going to want dri support. So I did three test builds: USE="-* udev xorg" ebuild xorg-server-21.1.8-r2.ebuild clean install - 617 targets - * Final size of installed tree: 13116 KiB (12.8 MiB) - 187 files installed USE="-* udev xorg minimal " ebuild xorg-server-21.1.8-r2.ebuild clean install - 527 targets - * Final size of installed tree: 12324 KiB (12.0 MiB) - 179 files USE="-* udev -xorg minimal " ebuild xorg-server-21.1.8-r2.ebuild clean install - Builds 316 targets - * Final size of installed tree: 7636 KiB ( 7.4 MiB) - 5 files installed: man page and documentation only, this is a completely useless and broken configuration What do you think you're gaining by building with USE=minimal? So I don't understand what this is supposed to accomplish.
Why the udev assumption? $ USE="-* minimal xorg" doas emerge -1av xorg-server (my configuration with glx enabled) Final size of installed tree: 12776 KiB (12.4 MiB) $ ls -lah /usr/bin/X* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 1 21:20 /usr/bin/X -> Xorg -rwx--s--x 1 root xorg 2.2M Aug 1 21:20 /usr/bin/Xorg $ USE="-* xorg" doas emerge -1av xorg-server Final size of installed tree: 13200 KiB (12.8 MiB) $ ls -lah /usr/bin/X* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 1 21:27 /usr/bin/X -> Xorg -rwx--s--x 1 root xorg 2.3M Aug 1 21:27 /usr/bin/Xorg Seems like I forgot to disable xvfb after I no longer needed it(unrelated). That added an extra 10 files to my numbers. The point of this is to use steam with the most minimal xorg.
That didn't answer my question at all. Your goal in using USE=minimal really to cut 0.4 MiB?
(In reply to Matt Turner from comment #3) > That didn't answer my question at all. Your goal in using USE=minimal really > to cut 0.4 MiB? If it's not needed, why build those extra files? As I see it, whenever I build something, I first ask what the benefit of building it is, not what the drawback of not building it is. To make the answer more clear, yes.
