[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have made it to the mail/news server]
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when I test what all gets installed with: emerge -vp xfce4-meta I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, that I haven't kept up with. But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? Just so you know its not already installed, heres a grep of all installed pkgs: qlop --list|grep xorg Fri Jan 15 11:02:43 2010 >>> x11-misc/xorg-cf-files-1.0.3 ----- ----- ----- ===== ----- ----- ----- I've included the dependencies in case anyone is interested... Should there be something more from xorg? emerge -vp xfce4-meta These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! 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