Dependency Hell : KDE does not depend on X Windows

Hikaru Amano kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 06:51:00 UTC 2007


On 7/5/07, Javier Perez <pepebuho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm
>
> I did a groupremove of the X Windows System.
> It erased X and KDE as expected. Figuring out that in order to have KDE I
> need to have X, I did a groupinstall of KDE. Kdebase and all its gang was
> installed, but X was left out!!!????
>
> When I did 'startx', the systems could not because X was missing.
>
> I would have thought that kdebase needed xorg-server-x11 at the very least
> to launch kde.
> How come they are not linked together?
>

perhaps because X applications can run through X forwarding  and not
only local X server

I have a  computer without X which I uses SSH X11 forwarding when I
need some GUI to configure some stuff easily ..

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