Bug 950980 – x11-misc/xdg-utils should have x11-apps/xset in RDEPEND

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Michał Dec 2025-03-09 11:34:56 UTC]

I see this bug was resolved in https://bugs.gentoo.org/256211, but it's come up again for some reason. I have x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.2.1-r8 installed, but for some reason the system is fine with this being there, and not having x11-apps/xset.

/usr/bin/xdg-screensaver is a POSIX shell script and we can easily see where xset is being used by calling `grep -n xset /usr/bin/xdg-screensaver`:
707:          xset +dpms
711:      if xset -q | grep 'DPMS is Enabled' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then
712:          xset -dpms
713:          xset +dpms
714:          xset dpms force on
762:      if xset -q | grep 'DPMS is Enabled' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then
767:          xset -dpms
993:xset_screensaver_timeout()
995:  xset q | sed '/^Screen Saver:/,/^[^ ]/ { s/.*timeout: *\([0-9]*\).*/\1/; t }; d'
1002:        timeout=`xset_screensaver_timeout`
1004:            echo "$timeout" > "$screensaver_file.xset"
1005:            xset s off > /dev/null
1011:        if [ -f "$screensaver_file.xset" ] ; then
1012:            value=`cat "$screensaver_file.xset"`
1013:            xset s $value > /dev/null
1014:            rm -f "$screensaver_file.xset"
1020:        xset s activate > /dev/null
1025:        xset s reset > /dev/null
1030:        timeout=`xset_screensaver_timeout`
1037:            echo "ERROR: xset q did not report the screensaver timeout" >&2
1412:        xset s off && xautolock -disable > /dev/null
1417:        xset s default && xautolock -enable > /dev/null

[Comment 1 Alfred Wingate 2025-03-10 09:37:11 UTC]

It was made conditional on X here. I guess with the idea that its a runtime optional dependency?

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/f955680634efdc47b16d9e5049acdae902fb9b86
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/35411

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