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On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:53 -0700, 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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it also depends on what you define as the normal use of your machine - |
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if you say that your machine is a "desktop" machine, then you _want_ X |
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to be a dependancy of firefox, etc. |
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If however you are setting up a server, then you _don't_ want X to be a |
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dependancy of such. |
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The way to define this, is of course with you profile. If you've just |
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set up a new machine, you may have overlooked the fact that there are |
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now different profiles. |
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/etc/make.profile used to point to (eg) |
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../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 |
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now it should point to |
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../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop |
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or |
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../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/server |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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