On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote:
[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?
Yes.
This is how X11 works. xfce does not need a full blown xserver on the *local*
machine, it simply needs X libs to function. The X libs in turn will talk to
the xserver, which does not have to be on the local machine.
Parallel situation: You do not need X and a browser on a machine running a web
server, as the pages served are not necessarily viewed on the machine hosting
apache.
To get X you can either;
merge xorg-x11 (this is the meta package you didn't know the name of) or
put X in USE
Note carefully that this is not a silly situation, it works this way by
design.
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
