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Alan: Thanks a lot for an insightful reply. |
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Hung |
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On 12/28/09 15:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 00:21:55 Gmail wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we |
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>> install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME, |
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>> or XFCE4 are used? |
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>> Happy New Year |
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>> Hung |
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> Not necessarily. |
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> xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDS on other things needed for an X |
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> session. You obviously have everything you need for an X session, how |
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> otherwise would you be able to run KDE4? (assuming you are not exporting X). |
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> Normally it is advisable to install xorg-x11 so as to take advantage of |
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> updated DEPENDs etc etc. But it's not a must, it's actually a question only |
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> you can answer for you. |
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