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Subject: Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:12:09 -0800
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From: "Matt Seitz (matseitz)" <matseitz@cisco.com>
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"Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" wrote: 
> 
> Remember that using X requires some level of manual intervention,
namely
> that you have to *start* the server and set DISPLAY before actually
> using it.  
> So installing xorg-server as a dependency isn't going to
> prevent these questions one bit.

Good point.  Would adding "xinit" as a dependency be a better solution?

I am hoping that when "setup" informs the user that "gitk requires
xinit", it might it at least:

1.  Alert the user to the fact that gitk now requires loading the X
server.  
2.  Spare the user having to run "setup" again to download the packages
they need.


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