Xfce dependencies

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DerSaidin

Hello,

I was just updating 9.1 to 10.0.
I decided to remove my /usr/local and /usr/ports and /var/db/pkg and start installing applications fresh (with pkgng instead of portmaster), keeping configs and home directory data.

Code: 
pkg install xfce

After installing this, I found I also needed these to be able to run xfce, and have a working keyboard/mouse.
Code: 
pkg install xinit
pkg install xauth
pkg install xf86-input-keyboard
pkg install xf86-input-mouse

And I needed this to apply my screen rotation.
Code: 
pkg install xrandr

Should xfce have dependencies on (some of) these packages?
 
With the desktop environments, the idea is that you might be installing on a server, with X only installed on remote clients. So they don't depend on X, which is technically true.
You've just installed parts of X manually instead of using x11/xorg.
 
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