Description
Describe the bug
As stated in the documentation for xkbcommon the library relies on the compose files provided by libX11 to be able to handle dead-key and key composing support:
Compose is distributed in libX11, as part of the X locale data.
Support in Kodi was added for wayland in xbmc/xbmc#23943 and is was done for generic libinput in xbmc/xbmc#24044.
To test this I added libx11 as a dependency for libxkcommon:
diff --git a/packages/wayland/libxkbcommon/package.mk b/packages/wayland/libxkbcommon/package.mk
index 23035a3899..9868361941 100644
--- a/packages/wayland/libxkbcommon/package.mk
+++ b/packages/wayland/libxkbcommon/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="0edc14eccdd391514458bc5f5a4b99863ed2d651e4dd761a90abf4f46ef99c2b"
PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
PKG_SITE="https://xkbcommon.org"
PKG_URL="https://xkbcommon.org/download/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain xkeyboard-config libxml2"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain libX11 xkeyboard-config libxml2"
PKG_LONGDESC="xkbcommon is a library to handle keyboard descriptions."
PKG_MESON_OPTS_TARGET="-Denable-docs=false"
which is obviously wrong since libx11 includes much more than just the compose data. Other distros like debian ship its own package (libx11-data) https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libx11-data, gentoo with compose-tables (https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/compose-tables), etc.
Also yocto/openembedded have a recipe for libx11-compose-data: https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/plain/meta/recipes-graphics/xorg-lib/libx11-compose-data_1.8.4.bb.
As far as I can tell libx11 does not provide any way to build only the compose tables. So a possible solution would be to extend the libx11 package (building it) and only actually install the compose files (those in /usr/share/X11/locale/). Since I know nothing about extending existing recipes nor even what the best approach is to handle this, I opted for a bug report.
Feel free to close if you feel this is a feature request, I don't have a forum account.