From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GTnws-0002WD-K3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:08:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8UN6uU9001718; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:06:56 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8UN23Iw011332 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:02:03 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so1690505wxc for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:02:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WbaXqof9iX+/elGYoICfm+Wjsub6b7Gjeh6550TIPVcbN68O0xC+RkLa1S2Rr3OuRuP05vDllwfXlyBpHb6C5t9X2hyLOcr7+Ok0Vxv6jCrdGacHsE4kZ0NKDbsG6krppgY0D3z1MKALlhgemRAK8eCn8KUQJjWtzzfAq8IOobE= Received: by 10.90.117.11 with SMTP id p11mr1318539agc; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.54.10 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10609301602l14c4acecw63d17cfeaded8562@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:02:02 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency In-Reply-To: <1159579478.9926.8.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10609291453p3ee66bf2wbf15e0b8916c22cb@mail.gmail.com> <1159579478.9926.8.camel@orpheus> X-Archives-Salt: 5f383121-d359-471b-a159-cbea19185587 X-Archives-Hash: 8ac64120fcb3e020eaec51f67b9c83d7 > > 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? > > it also depends on what you define as the normal use of your machine - > if you say that your machine is a "desktop" machine, then you _want_ X > to be a dependancy of firefox, etc. > > If however you are setting up a server, then you _don't_ want X to be a > dependancy of such. > > The way to define this, is of course with you profile. If you've just > set up a new machine, you may have overlooked the fact that there are > now different profiles. > > /etc/make.profile used to point to (eg) > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 > > now it should point to > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop > or > ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/server I looked at the amd64 subprofiles during installation but I didn't specify one because I didn't see a hardened choice. I should have specified desktop. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list