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Re: gitk fails to start after updating cygwin
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 23:54 +0100, marco atzeri wrote: > probably yes, the current setup.ini requires the X DLL's needed but > not the xorg-server > > Yaakov, > could you add it ? xorg-server is not specified as a runtime dependency of libX11 or libxcb for several reasons: * not everything that uses libX11 actually needs an X server all the time (e.g. giflib) or at all (e.g. nas). * the X11 client-server model allows a choice of X servers, of which XWin (while preferred) is only one such implementation, or users may choose a remote connection from another OS (e.g. a Linux box or VM). Therefore, xorg-server (preferably with xinit) is left to the user to select for installation. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple