openGL Framework

[Mark Brethen]

if I switch to X11 server, should I remove /opt/X11 along with Xquartz.app?

Mark Brethen
mark.brethen at gmail.com



> On Jul 22, 2022, at 6:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Jul 19, 2022, at 17:18, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> I’m also confused about the two x11 window environments (xorg-server vs xquartz). I’m assuming Xquartz libraries, etc are in /opt/local, what about xorg?
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> XQuartz is a standalone package that installs a complete X11 system, including the X11 server application XQuartz.app into /Applications/Utilities and the supporting X11 libraries into /opt/X11.
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> The xorg ports in MacPorts are the same software but you can pick and choose what you want to install, and we might have newer versions of some of the software than XQuartz since we update ports individually whereas XQuartz is a monolithic distribution. We call the X11 server application X11.app and install it into /Applications/MacPorts or whatever your applications_dir is set to and we install the X11 libraries into /opt/local or whatever your prefix is set to.
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> Both XQuartz and the xorg ports in MacPorts are maintained by Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia.
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> Any ports in MacPorts that need X11 libraries will use the ones provided by MacPorts X11 ports, not those provided by XQuartz.
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> If you want to run an X11 server, you can use either one, but most MacPorts users probably choose the MacPorts xorg-server port since that's one less thing to need to update separately and you don't end up with redundant copies of X11 libraries.
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