On 2013-01-18, Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:55:15 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
(...)
>
>> Do I really need gtk2 running on a server anyway?
>
> Only if:
>
> 1) runlevel is 5 (for the GUI login) or you log into the console and then use
> startx or xinit to fire up the X Server.
> 2) you run GTK2 programs via SSH X-Server Tunneling -- you don't need it
> for old-school xterms (eg xterm-215-8.el5_4.1), but you do need it for
> gnome-terminals (eg gnome-terminal-2.16.0-5.3.el5_6.1).
(...)
I would add:
3) Another package requires it. The cups package, for example,
requires gtk2 and other X-related stuff. So if you want to run a
headless print server, gtk2 has to be installed.
--
Liam
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