Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:50:38 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: An xorg-lite install Message-ID: <20061210135038.GA84865@mail.scottro.net>
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SirDice's suggestion of a "lite" xorg install got me thinking, and playing with it. I've been trying to pare down an X install to see what I could leave out and still have a working X, figuring that if, say, I left out a font needed by an application, that application would install the font at a later date. So far, I've gotten it down to xorg-libraries, xorg-server, keyboard, video and mouse drivers, the fonts suggested in the wiki, xorg-fonts (which was a cop-out--I still haven't had the patience to delete each font separately and see when X stopped starting, and, from xorg-apps, twm, xterm and xinit. (Without xinit I get startx not found--oops, I knew that.) :) I tried googling for this, but either I'm using the wrong search terms or SirDice and I are the only ones who like this idea. Does anyone have a list of what would be the minimum? (I would add to SirDice's suggestion that the xorg-lite should put in enough fonts so that X starts--his thought, IIRC, was that no fonts should be included, leaving the installer to pick which fonts he wanted. I would also include twm and xterm for basic beginnings.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Hey, I know! Why don't you kill them? Giles: I'm a Watcher, I haven't the skill. Buffy: Oh, come on. A stake through the heart, a little sunlight. It's like falling off a log.
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