Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency
> 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
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency
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, -- Iain Buchanan When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers. -- The Wall Street Journal -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency
On 9/29/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? This is because of the change to modular X. xorg-x11 is now just a meta-package that brings in all of the xorg packages. Other packages in the tree are *not* supposed to depend on xorg-x11, but only on those specific packages that they really require to run. If you want an X server locally, you need to also merge xorg-server. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 as a dependency
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? > > - Grant You could run firefox for example on a remote X server... -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
