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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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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |