I was attempting to help someone with a fresh xfce4 install here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=20141
and JGC dropped in with an interesting point, namely, xfce4 does not depend on X. Not wishing to burden the OP with my problems, I went off to my completely X-less server, did pacman -S for kde, gnome, and xfce4 in turn, captured the packages to be installed, and cancelled. Obviously, there's all kinds of non-X stuff there as well, but this is what I'm curious about - xorg dependencies for the "Big Three" DEs, as follows: KDE: xorg-fonts-alias-1.0.1-1 xorg-fonts-encodings-1.0.0-1 xorg-fonts-misc-1.0.0-2 xorg-server-1.0.2-1 xorg-server-utils-1.0.0-1 xorg-utils-1.0.0-1 xorg-xkb-utils-1.0.1-1 GNOME: NONE (!) XFCE4: xorg-fonts-alias-1.0.1-1 xorg-fonts-encodings-1.0.0-1 xorg-fonts-misc-1.0.0-2 xorg-server-1.0.2-1 xorg-server-utils-1.0.0-1 xorg-utils-1.0.0-1 xorg-xkb-utils-1.0.1-1 Two questions occur to me: - Why would pacman install xorg-server, without the means to start it i.e. xorg-xinit? - Why would I get NO xorg packages if I chose to install gnome? Like I said, I'm just curious. Tom K. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
