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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:48:12 -0400
From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
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CC: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Subject: Re: xorg-server package no longer installs start menu icons?
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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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