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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:21:55PM -0700, Penguin Lover Gmail squawked: |
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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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Depends. For the most part if you just run emerge a DE or a WM, or an |
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X-based application, the dependencies will pull in any bits of X that |
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you will need to have it run. |
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xorg-x11 is just a meta ebuild that lists a large part of what may be |
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used for running X. Not everything in it are used by every program. |
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I installed xorg-x11 personally because I had some home-made add-ons |
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to fvwm that depends on various X utilities that are generally not a |
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dependency of anything else. It is slighly more convenient to have |
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xorg-x11 in my world file instead of the dozen or so small utilities. |
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Cheers, |
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