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On 9/29/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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This is because of the change to modular X. xorg-x11 is now just a |
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meta-package that brings in all of the xorg packages. Other packages |
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in the tree are *not* supposed to depend on xorg-x11, but only on |
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those specific packages that they really require to run. |
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If you want an X server locally, you need to also merge xorg-server. |
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-Richard |
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