Thanks for the response..I will chek it out as soon as the emerge --update finishes.... it is taking forever to compile on my T20 (P-III 750) Regards, Vikram > > > > > Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and > > ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installed. > > Chances are you have it, too. > > > A stage 3 will not install X, unless you do emerge something after > install that requires X....like when I did an emerge kde-meta...that > got X installed, then kde and xdm, etc. > > >