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It's a virtual package, which means that it isn't really a package at |
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all. Basically it says "you need to have either Xorg or XFree86, |
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such-and-such version". So if you already have Xorg installed it'll |
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stick with that. |
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On 9/13/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> So is it a requirement to have it on the system? Or does it just make |
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> something technical easier to do. I'm unclear. I'll only be using |
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> xorg. |
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> |
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> thanks, |
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> Mark |
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> |
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> On 9/13/06, Dice R. Random <dicerandom@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > virtual/x11 was set up so that users could use either the Xorg or |
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> > XFree86 distributions. |
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> > |
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> > On 9/13/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > Hi, |
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> > > I find that this evening I need to do an upgrade on virtual/x11. I |
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> > > have no problems doing this but I'm curious - what is virtual/x11? Why |
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> > > does my AMD64 system need it? |
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> > > |
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> > > I did a quick equery depends virtual/x11 and got a long list of |
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> > > apps that depend on X but I would have thought xorg-x11 would have |
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> > > satisfied all of those. |
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> > > |
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> > > Does this have anything to do with a chroot'ed 32-bit environment I |
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> > > built on the machine but am not really maintaining very closely? |
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> > > |
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> > > Thanks in advance, |
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> > > Mark |
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> > > -- |
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> > > |
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