From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 as a dependency
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:13:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609300113.51935.harmgeerts@home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10609291453p3ee66bf2wbf15e0b8916c22cb@mail.gmail.com>
On Friday 29 September 2006 23:53, Grant wrote:
> I'm setting up a new system and I've noticed that xorg-x11 isn't
> emerged as a dependency of mozilla-firefox or xfce4, although neither
> of them will run without it. Can anyone tell me why this is?
xorg-x11 is a meta package that provides much more then is needed to run
firefox or xfce. Like Daniel says it's possible to use them on a remote X
server, so there is no need for a full blown X server installation.
The packages depend only on the parts of xorg that are needed to run it.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-29 21:53 [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency Grant
2006-09-29 21:59 ` Daniel Iliev
2006-09-29 22:56 ` Richard Fish
2006-09-29 23:13 ` Harm Geerts [this message]
2006-09-30 1:24 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-09-30 23:02 ` Grant
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