Re: xorg-clients package

[W B Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :On Wed, July 5, 2006 12:46 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :>     I personally believe that the file should contain the line by default
> :>     since 99.9% of the installations will want to run a local server,
> :>     but I guess we would have to convince the pkgsrc package maintainer
> :>     of that.
> :
> :That would be Joerg, who already seems unconvinced.  :)
>
>     Well, I'll just point out that not only do 99.9% of X installations run
>     on local machines and need that line, but also 95% of the users using
>     those X installations will have no idea that the Xservers file needs
>     to be modified or even what an 'Xservers' file is!  So just about anyone
>     who is not otherwise told about having to modify the file will believe
>     that xdm is broken.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Disclaimer: I have run X, but never on a server, and don't 
expect to run it again, save for the few OS X apps I use that 
are not native.

So perhaps I'm a 'disinterested third party'.

Accordingly, presuming that having the line present will result 
in a 'graceful' fail if invoked on a headless server, then, yes, 
it should harm none and help many to have it there to make an X 
install as near 'turnkey' as possible, at least for the basics.

Detail configs & customization for later, of course.

Bill Hacker