[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

[gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

[Gmail]

Hi all,
My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we
install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME,
or XFCE4 are used?

Happy New Year
Hung

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 29 December 2009 00:21:55 Gmail wrote:
> Hi all,
> My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we
> install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME,
> or XFCE4 are used?
> 
> Happy New Year
> Hung
> 

Not necessarily.

xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDS on other things needed for an X 
session. You obviously have everything you need for an X session, how 
otherwise would you be able to run KDE4? (assuming you are not exporting X).

Normally it is advisable to install xorg-x11 so as to take advantage of 
updated DEPENDs etc etc. But it's not a must, it's actually a question only 
you can answer for you.


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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11 -> SOLVED

[Gmail]

Alan: Thanks a lot for an insightful reply.

Hung

On 12/28/09 15:29, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 00:21:55 Gmail wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we
>> install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME,
>> or XFCE4 are used?
>>
>> Happy New Year
>> Hung
>>
>>     
> Not necessarily.
>
> xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDS on other things needed for an X 
> session. You obviously have everything you need for an X session, how 
> otherwise would you be able to run KDE4? (assuming you are not exporting X).
>
> Normally it is advisable to install xorg-x11 so as to take advantage of 
> updated DEPENDs etc etc. But it's not a must, it's actually a question only 
> you can answer for you.
>
>
>   

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-x11

[Willie Wong]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:21:55PM -0700, Penguin Lover Gmail squawked:
> My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we
> install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME,
> or XFCE4 are used?

Depends. For the most part if you just run emerge a DE or a WM, or an
X-based application, the dependencies will pull in any bits of X that
you will need to have it run. 

xorg-x11 is just a meta ebuild that lists a large part of what may be
used for running X. Not everything in it are used by every program. 

I installed xorg-x11 personally because I had some home-made add-ons
to fvwm that depends on various X utilities that are generally not a
dependency of anything else. It is slighly more convenient to have
xorg-x11 in my world file instead of the dozen or so small utilities. 

Cheers, 

W
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