It's a virtual package, which means that it isn't really a package at all. Basically it says "you need to have either Xorg or XFree86, such-and-such version". So if you already have Xorg installed it'll stick with that.
On 9/13/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So is it a requirement to have it on the system? Or does it just make something technical easier to do. I'm unclear. I'll only be using xorg. thanks, Mark On 9/13/06, Dice R. Random <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > virtual/x11 was set up so that users could use either the Xorg or > XFree86 distributions. > > On 9/13/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I find that this evening I need to do an upgrade on virtual/x11. I > > have no problems doing this but I'm curious - what is virtual/x11? Why > > does my AMD64 system need it? > > > > I did a quick equery depends virtual/x11 and got a long list of > > apps that depend on X but I would have thought xorg-x11 would have > > satisfied all of those. > > > > Does this have anything to do with a chroot'ed 32-bit environment I > > built on the machine but am not really maintaining very closely? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
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