But, as he said, he needs X ('cause realmedia, for example, uses it).
He just wants to get rid of the actual visual display for X, I guess.
Pretty weird concept, actually; probably makes more sense to encourage
audio software not to depend on X instead . . .
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
| Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > --=-=-=
| >
| >
| > An important question from the emacspeak (Blind-Linux) mailing list ...
| >
| > Further to this, I am currently installing a 7.0 distro for a blind
| > user and would like to place an item on the wishlist: Can we add an
| > install option to limit the amount of graphic material? It was very
| > tedious to step through all those packages trimming the purely
| > visual components. Including X is essential for many audio-desktop
| > features such as RealAudio, but there are a lot of packages which
| > are pure eye candy. It would be nice to trim them in one swoop.
|
| well, in the selection tree, unselect XFree86-libs. it will unselect all the
| packages requiring it (quite a lot).
|
| another solution is to let the install go, and afterwards to "urpme
| XFree86-libs", it will remove the X packages just the same (much slower though)
|
| cu Pixel.
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