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On Friday 29 September 2006 23:53, Grant wrote: |
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> I'm setting up a new system and I've noticed that xorg-x11 isn't |
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> emerged as a dependency of mozilla-firefox or xfce4, although neither |
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> of them will run without it. Can anyone tell me why this is? |
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xorg-x11 is a meta package that provides much more then is needed to run |
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firefox or xfce. Like Daniel says it's possible to use them on a remote X |
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server, so there is no need for a full blown X server installation. |
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The packages depend only on the parts of xorg that are needed to run it. |
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