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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> > [Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have |
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> > made it to the mail/news server] |
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> > Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of |
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> > anything better. |
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> > I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall |
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> > So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when |
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> > I test what all gets installed with: |
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> > emerge -vp xfce4-meta |
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> > I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. |
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> > xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg |
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> > pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. |
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> > Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, |
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> > that I haven't kept up with. |
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> > But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? |
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> Yes. |
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> This is how X11 works. xfce does not need a full blown xserver on the *local* |
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> machine, it simply needs X libs to function. The X libs in turn will talk to |
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> the xserver, which does not have to be on the local machine. |
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> Parallel situation: You do not need X and a browser on a machine running a web |
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> server, as the pages served are not necessarily viewed on the machine hosting |
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> apache. |
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Ahh yes... I see you point now. |
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> To get X you can either; |
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> merge xorg-x11 (this is the "meta" package you didn't know the name of) or |
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> put "X" in USE |
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> Note carefully that this is not a silly situation, it works this way by |
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> design. |
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Well that is kind of the kicker... I do have X in use flags. In fact posting |
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all I have in /etc/make.conf below: |
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USE="X acpi alsa apache2 branding cscope dbus emacs ffmpeg gif hal |
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jpeg lock logrotate mbox mysql samba sasl session svg vim-pager |
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vim-with-x png pdf session startup-notification subversion thunar |
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tiff exif win32codecs Xaw3d |
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## FOR Xfce4 => branding dbus hal lock session startup-notification thunar |
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## They are added above |
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-bluetooth -crypt -eds -emboss -evo -gnome -gstreamer -imap |
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-ipv6 -kde -ldap -mad -maildir -mikmod -minimal -qt3 -qt3support |
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-qt4 -sdl -xscreensaver" |
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As you see, it is the very first USE flag. |
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Maybe something the the negative list is making a problem...? |
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But its not a major obstacle.. of course, my real aim is to get X going with |
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Xfce4 and I'm pretty sure I can get that done. |
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Thanks for the input. |