The benefit of this, as well as being able to unmerge a package, is that it removes the Xsession option when using gdm (because of /usr/share/xsessions/Xsession.desktop) x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.12 (really just Xvfb) with USE="-debug -dmx -doc ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -suid systemd -test udev -unwind wayland -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xorg xvfb" builds fine for me without xinit installed. My only caution it that I don't understand why x11-apps/xinit is in CDEPEND and not just RDEPEND. My hope would be it could move to RDEPEND as: xorg? ( x11-apps/xinit )
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3b5d34d13f448ceee32850ec3b263bc6c09a595e commit 3b5d34d13f448ceee32850ec3b263bc6c09a595e Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-12-16 02:35:05 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-12-16 02:37:23 +0000 x11-base/xorg-server: Make xinit dependency optional Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/804214 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-9999.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)