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Hi, excellent people! |
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Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why |
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not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk? |
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# emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is". |
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Scrabbled aroud /usr/portage, then # emerge xfce4 started working. |
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Why the 4 do I have to type xfce4, not xfce? Anyhow, that's a minor |
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point. |
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The major point was that portage refused to install xfce because it said |
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that |
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[blocks B ] net-print/lprng (is blocking net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1) |
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[blocks B ] net-print/cups (is blocking net-print/lprng-3.8.28) |
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* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be |
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* installed at the same time on the same system. |
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. I.e., it wants to override my decision to use lprng as print program |
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and put in cups instead. This is a bit of a cheek! |
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Why isn't xfce configured merely to install "some print daemon", rather |
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than specifically cups? For that matter, why must it install a print |
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daemon at all? Not every X user has a printer or wants to print. |
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What can I do about this? I really don't want to have to install cups. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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