131008 Khumba wrote: > 131008 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> A few days ago, I upgraded to xorg-server-1.14.3 with a lot of deps. >> Everything seems to be working normally since then, >> but a lot of pkgs became unneeded, according to 'emerge -cpv', ie >> 131005 x11-apps/bitmap-1.0.6 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-apps/sessreg-1.0.7 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-apps/xkbutils-1.0.3 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-apps/xkill-1.0.3 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.2 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-apps/xrandr-1.3.5 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-apps/xrefresh-1.0.4 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-apps/xvinfo-1.1.1 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-libs/libXp-1.0.1 [for xorg-x11 : otiose] >> 131005 x11-libs/libXvMC-1.0.7 [for nvidia-drivers] >> 131005 x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.4 [for mesa : otiose] >> 131005 x11-proto/printproto-1.0.5 [for xorg-x11 LO : otiose] >> Presumably, these have all been absorbed into other Xorg pgms. > x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r1 here. > I still have those packages; they're pulled in by x11-base/xorg-x11, > which is the main Xorg meta-package that pulls in xorg-server.
Yes : I install them individually & don't use the meta. > As for whether you need them, I think that's your call. > I haven't tried xorg-server without xorg-x11 in a while, > but lots of those utilities are useful : xkill, xrandr ... . What are they useful for ? -- I can't do 'man' as they're not installed & 'eix' simply shows the same URL for each ; is there anywhere I can look ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
