On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of > anything better. > > I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall > > So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when > I test what all gets installed with: > > emerge -vp xfce4-meta > > I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. > > xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg > pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. > > Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, > that I haven't kept up with. > > But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server?
Yes, in same way a user can can get use out of Firefox without installing Apache ;-). X11 is client/server based. Client(s) and server need not exist on the same machine, and a server can serve multiple distributed clients simultaneously without any local clients. You probably want: $ # set up VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES as appropriate $ emerge -vp xfce4-meta xorg-server
