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Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin


On 2/24/2012 5:43 PM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote:

Nobody that doesn't need or want it has to install the X-Server. If one uses gitk though, one has now moved into the category of
"need/want
the X-Server" if one wasn't already in that category. ;-)

Well, they certainly will need/want AN X-Server. But I thought Corrina's point was that in some cases that X-Server does not have to be the Cygwin xorg-server (could be a different local X-Server, or even a remote X-Server).

True enough, though I expect for most Cygwin users, this is the exception and not the rule.

My question is:  are there enough gitk users who would need/want the
Cygwin xorg-server that it would be worth installing xorg-server by
default when installing gitk, even though some gitk users may not
actually need the Cygwin xorg-server?

I would be for adding Cygiwn's xorg-server as a dependency for any package that needs an X-Server to be generally useful.

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Larry

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