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On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of |
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> anything better. |
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> I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall |
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> So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when |
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> I test what all gets installed with: |
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> emerge -vp xfce4-meta |
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> I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. |
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> xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg |
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> pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. |
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> Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, |
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> that I haven't kept up with. |
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> But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? |
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Yes, in same way a user can can get use out of Firefox without |
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installing Apache ;-). X11 is client/server based. Client(s) and |
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server need not exist on the same machine, and a server can serve |
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multiple distributed clients simultaneously without any local clients. |
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You probably want: |
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$ # set up VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES as appropriate |
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$ emerge -vp xfce4-meta xorg-server |
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