On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:13:02PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > If having a fedora box without X installed but still functionnal is not > > > convincing I don't know where we are heading. > > As mentioned, you don't need to have an X server installed. The argument for > > saving the few megs of disk space used by the X libraries themselves *isn't* > > convincing. > This is not an issue of space, but of having the choice not to install > the X libs. Which isn't, as I said, very convincing. They're not running as root, and they're not installed setuid, they need to don't do wacky things with memory and hardware access, etc. -- in short, they don't fall under the basic reasons for wanting to avoid installing X. They're just some more libraries, nothing special to worry about. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
