On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 14:43 -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > > > > Nobody that doesn't need or want it has to install the X-Server. If > > one uses gitk though, one has now moved into the category of "need/want > > the X-Server" if one wasn't already in that category. ;-) > > Well, they certainly will need/want AN X-Server. But I thought > Corrina's point was that in some cases that X-Server does not have to be > the Cygwin xorg-server (could be a different local X-Server, or even a > remote X-Server). > > My question is: are there enough gitk users who would need/want the > Cygwin xorg-server that it would be worth installing xorg-server by > default when installing gitk, even though some gitk users may not > actually need the Cygwin xorg-server?
Remember that using X requires some level of manual intervention, namely that you have to *start* the server and set DISPLAY before actually using it. So installing xorg-server as a dependency isn't going to prevent these questions one bit. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
