From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Subject: Re: xorg-server package no longer installs start menu icons?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523879BC.9070100@cs.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52387022.4000108@dronecode.org.uk>
On 17/09/2013 11:07 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 16/09/2013 23:02, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 16/09/2013 2:45 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> On 12/09/2013 18:02, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> Subject line says it all...
>>>>
>>>> (I thought this came up before but either I remembered wrong or my Google-foo
>>>> is weak today).
>>> These start menu links aren't installed by the xorg-server package, but by the
>>> xinit package. WFM.
>>>
>> Ah... that worked. Xinit just didn't install by default when I pulled
>> xorg-server.
> This is intended.
>
> To do otherwise would lead to an incorrect, circular dependency. xinit
> depends on xorg-server (as you must have a server to start for it to be
> useful), but xorg-server does not depend on xinit (as you could start it some
> other way, e.g. from the command line)
>
> I guess it would be nice if we had an 'X' virtual package which just depended
> on xinit for people who don't read documentation...
Guilty... it's right there on the front page of the cygwin/x web page.
Ryan
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 18:47 Ryan Johnson
2013-09-16 18:49 ` Jon TURNEY
2013-09-16 23:24 ` Ryan Johnson
2013-09-17 15:15 ` Jon TURNEY
2013-09-17 16:16 ` Ryan Johnson [this message]
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