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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:21:03
Message-Id: 200510202116.47326.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 by Matthijs van der Vleuten
1 On Thursday 20 October 2005 20:58, Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote:
2 > On 10/20/05, Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o> wrote:
3 > > To solve this issue it would have to be an on-by-default flag, i.e.
4 > > 'noxserver'. I know some people are strongly against nofoo flags.
5 >
6 > What about an off-by-default 'xserver' flag?
7 It wouldn't solve the problem at hand.
8
9 Without any flag at all, the user needs to 'emerge xorg-x11' manually to get
10 eg KDE to run locally. With an off-by-default flag, he needs to set it on
11 manually, _before_ installing KDE, to get an xorg-x11 server. As long as he
12 needs to do something manually, explicitly, it should just be an 'emerge
13 xorg-x11', which after all is a very simple operation.
14
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16 Dan Armak
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Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] modular X - 7.0 RC1 "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>