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Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin
- From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:36:43 -0600
- Subject: Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin
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On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 14:43 -0800, 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).
>
> 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?
Remember that using X requires some level of manual intervention, namely
that you have to *start* the server and set DISPLAY before actually
using it. So installing xorg-server as a dependency isn't going to
prevent these questions one bit.
Yaakov
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