Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/term?

[Spider]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 19:36 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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> Aron Griffis wrote:
> > That bug is complaining that xterm is installed, and requests that it
> > not be necessary.  I don't see how this leads to virtual/term,
> > though.  After all, they didn't request Gentoo to make sure there is
> > a terminal installed.
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> You are correct that this wasn't the request. It was a potential
> solution to that request that had previously been discussed among X
> folks as a solution to the problem that people had another terminal
> emulator and didn't want two.
>
> > How about making a local USE "xterm" for xorg-x11, then adding it to
> > the default list?  Then such users can USE=-xterm and they'll be all
> > set.
>
> I've already elaborated on how we provide a complete X implementation as
> upstream does. We've just taken the liberty of splitting it out into two
> separate ebuilds, one for xterm and one for everything else.
>
> A terminal emulator is not considered an optional part of a complete X
> implementation. I'm willing to deviate from that by saying any emulator
> could be acceptable rather than just xterm, but perhaps that was a bad idea.

Worth noticing here. The -default- X environment launches xterms,  and
will break without xterm.  This is the same for any and all tests that
are documented in "get X to work" things.  

So, if you are in that situation, xterm is not optional.  :-)

And frankly, I don't think you want to build in "find my xterm"  logic
in the X startup scripts.

//Spider

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