On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:28:27AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > Hi, > > the x11 dependencies, when installing an x11 based software, > are incomplete. > > If you have no ports installed yet and install an X11 based > software like a windowmanager, then I would expect, that > our ports collection installs at least a minimum working X11 installation. > > But it does not. It installs xorg libraries but no xorg server and no > needed fonts to run the X11 server. > > After installing the xorg server manually, and running > Xorg -configure and then try to run it, then you will see > that it still crashes because of missing standard fonts. > > For example the fixed fonts were missing. > > Would it please be possible to fix the xorg ports dependencies, > so that xorg gets installed useable if one chooses to install > an x11 based software ? > > Normally our ports collection works this way to resolve > build-, install-, run-dependencies completely. But in the > X11 case I see since a long time (years) that it fails > miserably in this. > > Is there a certain intention behind it ? Don't tell, because > there are 2 X11 servers in the ports collection. Since then > it would be another mistake that the xorg-libraries gets > installed the way it works now ...
In principle you don't need a local server to run a window manager, you can use the standard X forwarding to run it on a remote server. Similarly, you don't need a full set of fonts to run a viable server. If you want a complete X installation including server, fonts, etc, install the xorg port, not just the xorg-server or xorg-libraries ports. This has been the case since a long time (years), so I guess it's just time you caught up to the way things work ;-) Kris
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