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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:35:24
Message-Id: 200609111426.59951.harmgeerts@home.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gnome-light without X support by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday 11 September 2006 12:31, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Monday 11 September 2006 12:21, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
3 > > Hi guys,
4 > >
5 > > This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is
6 > > possible to emerge gnome-light with X="... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
7 > > ...".
8
9 No, it isn't.
10
11 > But even if you did get it to compile with -X, the concept
12 > doesn't make sense. The whole point of gnome (and gnome-light
13 > is just a minimal subset of that) is to display stuff on the
14 > screen and for that you require X, so leave it in the USE flags
15 > so portage can do the right thing.
16 >
17 > Why do you want to do such a thing anyway?
18
19 If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile
20 xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries it needs
21 but you don't need to install a complete X server.
22
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support "Rafael Fernández López" <info@××××××××××××××××××.com>