On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 10:47:15AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Santiago, I really hope you are not proposing to remove that dependency. > Did you take a look at xfree86-common's filelist? > > * A bunch of directories. Some programs don't work if those directories > doesn't exist. Which programs? The programs that depend on xlib6g. Most programs that you want to run to display on a remote X server do not. > * /etc/X11/Xsession and /etc/X11/Xresources/. The first one loads the > resources. There's some code in xlib6g to use X resources. You won't need those for a remote display. > * A few _important_ docs. If a program depends on xlib6g it's because it > will use X somehow. If it uses X, I HOPE the user is willing to READ a > few docs. If they don't read the docs, it's their problem, we can't do > anything about that. They are on the remote machine then. > Except in a handful of situations, X won't run at all if xfree86-common is > not installed. But you may not want to run X on that machine. Maybe it's a headless server. You may however want to run rxvt and direct the output to your local X display at your workstation. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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