Re: [gentoo-amd64] virtual/x11 - what is it?

[Mark Knecht]

So is it a requirement to have it on the system? Or does it just make
something technical easier to do. I'm unclear. I'll only be using
xorg.

thanks,
Mark

On 9/13/06, Dice R. Random <dicerandom@×××××.com> wrote:
> virtual/x11 was set up so that users could use either the Xorg or
> XFree86 distributions.
>
> On 9/13/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I find that this evening I need to do an upgrade on virtual/x11. I
> > have no problems doing this but I'm curious - what is virtual/x11? Why
> > does my AMD64 system need it?
> >
> >    I did a quick equery depends virtual/x11 and got a long list of
> > apps that depend on X but I would have thought xorg-x11 would have
> > satisfied all of those.
> >
> >    Does this have anything to do with a chroot'ed 32-bit environment I
> > built on the machine but am not really maintaining very closely?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mark
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