Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday 04 September 2015 11:31:25 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:42:33 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >>  > x11-base/xorg-server
> > >
> > > Remove. The server is a dep for just about everything GUI-related
> >
> > Not so here on this KDE box. I removed it from my world file and emerge
> > -ca wanted to remove the server, so I put it back again, sharpish. I
> > don't have x11-base/xorg-x11 though, not needing all that extra stuff;
> > this is in accordance with the handbook.
>
> That's as it should be. Graphical programs are X clients, so they pull in
> the client libraries. They need an X server to talk to, but not
> necessarily on the same box.

Indeed. So Alan's advice should have been for the OP to remove either xorg-
server or xorg-x11.

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Rgds
Peter