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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:08:47
Message-Id: 49bf44f10609301602l14c4acecw63d17cfeaded8562@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency by Iain Buchanan
1 > > I'm setting up a new system and I've noticed that xorg-x11 isn't
2 > > emerged as a dependency of mozilla-firefox or xfce4, although neither
3 > > of them will run without it. Can anyone tell me why this is?
4 >
5 > it also depends on what you define as the normal use of your machine -
6 > if you say that your machine is a "desktop" machine, then you _want_ X
7 > to be a dependancy of firefox, etc.
8 >
9 > If however you are setting up a server, then you _don't_ want X to be a
10 > dependancy of such.
11 >
12 > The way to define this, is of course with you profile. If you've just
13 > set up a new machine, you may have overlooked the fact that there are
14 > now different profiles.
15 >
16 > /etc/make.profile used to point to (eg)
17 > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0
18 >
19 > now it should point to
20 > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop
21 > or
22 > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/server
23
24 I looked at the amd64 subprofiles during installation but I didn't
25 specify one because I didn't see a hardened choice. I should have
26 specified desktop.
27
28 - Grant
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