X11 in Macports

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Nov 23 03:44:42 PST 2008


Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 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+...

True, but the x11 variant is selected by default.

- Josh


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