On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:54:23AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Even on machines where I never run an X display on the console, I often > find it extremely handy to have wireshark-gnome installed and run it via > ssh port-forwarding. Likewise I might want to install VMware server > which needs X libs and perhaps a few other things on a machine that > doesn't run X on the console. And on some other machines that I would > still classify as servers I run a whole desktop environment (or several) > remotely via freenx. Are the packages split so you can easily get the X > libs, fonts, etc., without hardware related components? Yes. The X server should never be required, nor any window manager. (except that firstboot and system-config-display requires metacity because they really use it). there is still the metacity issue I talked about, and that was reported months ago, without success, but otherwise I am not aware of such issues. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
