On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:21:55PM -0700, Penguin Lover Gmail squawked: > My laptop runs KDE4 fine without x11-base/xorg-x11 installed. Should we > install x11-base/xorg-x11 if desktop environments such as KDE4, GNOME, > or XFCE4 are used?
Depends. For the most part if you just run emerge a DE or a WM, or an X-based application, the dependencies will pull in any bits of X that you will need to have it run. xorg-x11 is just a meta ebuild that lists a large part of what may be used for running X. Not everything in it are used by every program. I installed xorg-x11 personally because I had some home-made add-ons to fvwm that depends on various X utilities that are generally not a dependency of anything else. It is slighly more convenient to have xorg-x11 in my world file instead of the dozen or so small utilities. Cheers, W -- Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1116 days, 23:51
