X11 in Macports

[Anders F Björklund]

Joshua Root wrote:

>> Well the x server itself can be xorg-server... but there's no real
>> reason that we *need* an X server... we just need to worry about the
>> client side deps and the user can run it on whatever server they want
>> (they can use Exceed on windows for all we care)
>
> I was thinking of the case where a newbie doesn't have an X server,
> installs GIMP or something, and complains that it won't run.

Does GIMP require X11 ? I thought it only needed (any) GTK+...

But yeah, if "something" is an X program then sure it needs X.

--anders