Summary: | no option not to install xutils: xterm, twm, xeyes, etc. | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Mark Tiefenbruck <mark> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Mark Tiefenbruck
2005-09-18 20:10:20 UTC
Try xorg-server instead of xorg-x11. http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/migrating_to_modular_x_howto.txt xorg-server has three use flags and is hard masked. My problem with xorg-x11 is that it doesn't have enough use flags. I just don't want to be forced to download and install something that I don't use and isn't required. If I did, I'd be using a different distro. I can tell you almost for sure that there is no plan whatsoever on adding "minimal" use flag to xorg-x11, thus effectively duplicating the effort put into xorg-server. Jakub is 100% correct. xorg-server is part of the modularization effort of X, which will provide more functionality in terms of choice than we ever could from a USE-flag combination on the monolithic build. Also, xorg-server is not an upgrade from xorg-x11 by itself, but rather just the server component of the existing xorg-x11 package. |