To reiterate the point that both Martin and I made earlier (to avoid potential confusion when people search the list archives), and just mentioned today on the OroborOSX list, too: OroborOSX requires you to have _all_ of XFree86. Its "private XDarwin" is just a replacement for XDarwin.app.
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:22, Joe Block wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Monday, Jan 6, 2003, at 13:56 US/Eastern, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > > > I argue for leaving it as is. We indeed have had this discussion > > before, > > and the conclusion was that since there are lots of ways to use X11 > > apps > > without having xfree86-rootless installed, we should not move > > "Provides: > > x11" to xfree86-rootless. For example, you can run these apps > > remotely on > > a machine that does have an Xserver installed, or you can run them in > > Xvnc/Vncviewer, or you can run them in oroborus X (which has it's own > > XDarwin bundled in). Why force people to install xfree86-rootless if > > they > > don't really need to? > > Why not have a ouroborusx dummy package that provides X11 for those > people running OuroborosX? I think it's better for people who may not > be X11 gurus to have a default that leaves them with what they expect - > a system able to run package N when they do fink install N. > > jpb > - -- > Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be > unpopular. > - Adlai Stevenson > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQE+Gh3dyEXo8W2M9hsRAtoaAJ95n+9Dowt+YVu84EyYNsi3h2oThgCeOY0G > pc4Ei/kJEH2N7BcdxldeC/4= > =dVLg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
