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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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I looked at the amd64 subprofiles during installation but I didn't |
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specify one because I didn't see a hardened choice. I should have |
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specified desktop. |
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- Grant |
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