On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 21:40 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: > Earnie Boyd <ear...@users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > And what Windows user who casually installs Cygwin has access to an X > > server? > > I do and FTR: I don't want the cygwin Xorg server to be a dependency to > all programs that might use X because that would pull in a lot of > packages that I have no use for on most systems. You might "recommend" > companion packages that are typically needed to be combined with a > specific selected package when installed in an isolated environment, but > please not a dependency. It is perfectly OK to install X applications > onto a machine that doesn't have X installed. You don't need a server > there, nor do you need an xinit start script or anything else besides > the actual application and a handful of DLL.
Thank you for reinforcing my point. While we certainly promote the Cygwin/X server, forcing xorg-server/xinit as a dependency not only won't prevent questions (since the user still needs to *start* the X server), but those who use other X servers will have this very complaint. Now please excuse me while I get back to orchestrating the next major transition for the distro. 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
