Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > On Nov 22, 2008, at 23:13, Joshua Root wrote: > >> It doesn't matter so much what they depend on, as long as that port has >> a check like that currently in XFree86 (since we really want people to >> use Apple's binary X11 on Mac OS X). So the depended-on port will only >> be installed on other platforms, in which case I think xorg-libX11 is >> fine. Hopefully users on non-Mac platforms will know that they also need >> an X server somewhere. > > Well the x server itself can be xorg-server... but there's no real > reason that we *need* an X server... we just need to worry about the > client side deps and the user can run it on whatever server they want > (they can use Exceed on windows for all we care)
I was thinking of the case where a newbie doesn't have an X server, installs GIMP or something, and complains that it won't run. >>>> 3) The old monolith xorg and XFree86 >>>> >>>> I'd like to eventually punt these in favor of having just one X11 >>>> solution in Macports based on the latest release. >> >> A port that installed XQuartz (or the appropriate Apple X11 package on >> older OSes) would be nice, actually. > > I wasn't really talking about installing the binary Apple package... I'm > talking about building it from source from Macports if the user desires > to use it instead of the one on their system... Ah, yeah, that would be nice too. :-) - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
