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Re: xorg-server package no longer installs start menu icons?
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Ryan Johnson <ryan dot johnson at cs dot utoronto dot ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:07:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: xorg-server package no longer installs start menu icons?
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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...
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