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cynric
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 Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject: Removing XTerm |
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I haven't seen anything regarding removing XTerm. It doesn't seem to have any reverse depencies or break anything when it's removed. However, when updating, it usually gets dragged back in with xorg-x11. I'm wondering what's the best way to resolve this or whether xorg actually does need it. Thanks.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Removing XTerm |
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| cynric wrote: | | I haven't seen anything regarding removing XTerm. It doesn't seem to have any reverse depencies or break anything when it's removed. However, when updating, it usually gets dragged back in with xorg-x11. I'm wondering what's the best way to resolve this or whether xorg actually does need it. Thanks. |
I really don't think it is needed, since any sane package should not rely on xterm but on the one defined by some (don't recall right now) environment variable.
If I wanted to remove it and keep it from re-emerging, I would mask it in /etc/portage/package.mask
If you notice any problems, you can always re-emerge it yourself.
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*nods* That's pretty much what I was thinking. I've been running without for the most part, so if it does break, it looks like it'll be subtle. Just grabbing some feedback; thanks for the reply.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| This issue should be fixed with the new modular Xorg, you will be abel to specify which Xorg components get built or not. |
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| Quote: | | This issue should be fixed with the new modular Xorg, you will be abel to specify which Xorg components get built or not. |
xterm is already in it's own package. So I don't think this will change anything, an install of modular X will probably install xterm by default too since there are some stuff that uses it (like failsafe login from display managers). |
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So, xterm plays in with graphical logins?
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| Yeah. Not that xterm is needed or anything, but if you have any problems you can do a failsafe login and only get xterm (no wm). But if you don't use the failsafe session, xterm isn't needed. I guess you could edit the session file and change to some other term, if you really wanted. |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't boot into X so it's not really a concern for myself, but thanks for the explanation. |
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Looks like mozilla-firefox pulls it in as well. That seems kind of odd. Maybe it'd be better to add a provide for xterm instead of masking? Or, just live with xterm on; not a big deal, but looks like excess to me if you have another term installed.
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Could just be me. TERM is set to xterm-color. Perhaps changing it to aterm (what I actually use) would fix things as originally hinted at; although "TERM=aterm" doesn't seem to fix it.
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