Kyle McDonald wrote:
> Which 'older graphics environments' need SUNWCxsunserver?
For now, SPARC machines and Sun Rays. In the future, only SPARC machines
with graphics cards older than PCI-Express (i.e. Sbus, UPA, and original PCI).
> Is there something that stops a package from being in two clusters at once?
I thought so, but someone closer to the install software would know better
than I.
> I mean can't picking SUNWCfontlibs get you all the font libs, and
> Picking SUNWxwrte some other time get you all the X11 run-time including
> the required font libs?
>
> I think SUNWCxwrte needed more than just SUNWxwxft though.
SUNWxwxft requires the rest of SUNWCfontlibs.
> [Which brings me to another question... why are some fonts with the font
> server, and others with in their own clusters? shouldn't they all be in
> the fontserver cluster, or all be seperate?]
I think that's mostly historical, but have never looked at it much - the
font server cluster was created before I got here. Until not too long
ago, the libraries needed by the font server were in the same package as
the core fonts.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
