Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>]

On 2/24/2012 5:43 PM, 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).

True enough, though I expect for most Cygwin users, this is the exception
and not the rule.

> 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?

I would be for adding Cygiwn's xorg-server as a dependency for any
package that needs an X-Server to be generally useful.

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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