On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:49:14PM +0100, J.O. Aho wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Michael George wrote:
>
> >Are there any experienced users here who could adapt the ctwm port in
> >gentoo so that it will be ready for the move to the module XOrg in the
> >near future? I see that ctwm is still on the "broken" list:
> >http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/broken_modular/broken_modular.txt.20060130
>
> I haven't even got the modular Xorg to work and I have tried on three
> different arches (x86 ppc sparc). I really wouldn't spend to much thought
> yet on the modular Xorg in Gentoo, it's still masked outover that is's
> marked as unstable. There are ebuilds that should be automatically emerge
> and still don't, you need to do that manually after you have installed the
> modular Xorg.
> Something that has surprised me is that Gentoo don't give people the
> option to use the monolithic Xorg 6.9.
The difference isn't just with gentoo, xorg is going modular rather than
monolithic.
> Just that ctwm is on the list, don't really mean much IMHO, it most likely
> just a dependency that is missing to some libX* and I think if you are
> sure you have all needed things installed, you will be able to emerge ctwm
> without any problems with -nodeps option.
Perhaps it's not worth worrying about until the transition to modular xorg is
unmasked and that's more stable...
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