On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:53 -0700, 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?
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
HTH,
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