From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:14:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263586458.4996.7.camel@necropolis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4vjkzy6.fsf@newsguy.com>
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
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2010-01-15 18:03 [gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work Harry Putnam
2010-01-15 20:14 ` Albert W. Hopkins [this message]
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2010-01-15 18:43 Harry Putnam
2010-01-15 19:14 ` Alan McKinnon
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