Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?!
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:33:13
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0610120924340.27255@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?! by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2
3 > On Thursday 12 October 2006 00:56, Jorge Almeida wrote:
4 >> I did "emerge -p --depclean" and it would remove x11-base/xorg-x11
5 >> (version 7.0-r1).
6 >> Now, how can this be? (No, I don't run a X-less workstation!)
7 >> I know --depclean is not to be blindly trusted, but is this normal?
8 >
9 > As has been mentioned before on this list you could still run your X programs
10 > with an external X server. Hence it's not that unlikely that nothing requires
11 > a local X server. To tell it you want to keep the local X server run:
12 >
13 > # emerge --noreplace xorg-x11
14 >
15 >
16 I don't understand: doesn't the "X" USE variable implies that a local
17 server is required?
18 --
19 Jorge Almeida

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Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 not needed?! Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>