Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote:
> > [Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
> > made it to the mail/news server]
> >
> > 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.
>
> This is how X11 works. xfce does not need a full blown xserver on the *local*
> machine, it simply needs X libs to function. The X libs in turn will talk to
> the xserver, which does not have to be on the local machine.
>
> Parallel situation: You do not need X and a browser on a machine running a
> web
> server, as the pages served are not necessarily viewed on the machine hosting
> apache.
Ahh yes... I see you point now.
> To get X you can either;
>
> merge xorg-x11 (this is the "meta" package you didn't know the name of) or
> put "X" in USE
>
> Note carefully that this is not a silly situation, it works this way by
> design.
Well that is kind of the kicker... I do have X in use flags. In fact posting
all I have in /etc/make.conf below:
USE="X acpi alsa apache2 branding cscope dbus emacs ffmpeg gif hal
jpeg lock logrotate mbox mysql samba sasl session svg vim-pager
vim-with-x png pdf session startup-notification subversion thunar
tiff exif win32codecs Xaw3d
## FOR Xfce4 => branding dbus hal lock session startup-notification thunar
## They are added above
-bluetooth -crypt -eds -emboss -evo -gnome -gstreamer -imap
-ipv6 -kde -ldap -mad -maildir -mikmod -minimal -qt3 -qt3support
-qt4 -sdl -xscreensaver"
As you see, it is the very first USE flag.
Maybe something the the negative list is making a problem...?
But its not a major obstacle.. of course, my real aim is to get X going with
Xfce4 and I'm pretty sure I can get that done.
Thanks for the input.
