Christine Tran wrote:
> Cross-posted, pardon me for duplicates.
>
> I'm building a system starting with SUNWCrnet, it needs zones and TX.
> x [P] SUNWj5rt JDK 5.0 Runtime Env. (1.5.0_14)
[...]
> I wonder if the X Window, Motif, CDE and Text Layout is *really*
> necessary. I don't have a problem adding pools and the two admin
> packages. Other boxes built without these packages have worked fine
> so far. However, eventually they will need support, and I don't want
> to be in that place where I have to explain why a headless box that
> runs no graphics needs X, and un-supportability.
I would guess that the Java Runtime is the reason for the dependencies
on the X, Motif & CDE library packages, since there aren't separate
packages for "Just enough JRE to run-non-GUI Java apps" and "JRE support
for Java GUI apps".
Those libraries are for X clients, so would also be needed if you want
to ssh to the machine and remote display a GUI app back to another
computer - if you're on Solaris 10 or later, the X servers for local
display are in SUNWxorg-server and SUNWxsun-server, which didn't appear
to be in your list.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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