Problem installing metacity

[Stefan Gräf]

Thanks Josh,

So, what is your suggestion then if you don't want to upgrade to leopard 
yet? Is there any alternative to make gnome work properly?

Stefan

Joshua Root wrote:
> Stefan Gräf wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> It seems like there are some packages in the dependency list that are 
>> missing. Any help is very much appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stefan
>>
>> --->  Configuring metacity
> <snip>
>>
>> No package 'xcomposite' found
>> No package 'xfixes' found
>> No package 'xdamage' found
> 
> These are X extensions which are present in Apple's X11 on Leopard but 
> not on earlier OS X versions. It might be possible to create ports for 
> them, but that has not been done at present. Metacity should 
> theoretically be able to work without them, but nobody has yet been able 
> to figure out a way to make it build in their absence.
> 
> See: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14905>
> 
> - Josh