startx and xinit under FreeBSD8

[Chris Rees]

2009/12/12 andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com>:
> On Fri 2009-12-11 16:57:06 UTC-0500, Steven Friedrich (freebsd at insightbb.com) wrote:
>
>> I installed FreeBSD to another partition, so I could check it out.
>> I selected All sources and binaries and KDE4.
>>
>> When I tried startx, it complained that it didn't exist.
>> It's just a script, so I copied it over from my 7.2p5 partition.
>> Now it complains that xinit doesn't exist.
>>
>> Why didn't these two get laid-down by the install??
>
> The dependencies for KDE4 probably don't go as far as requiring an X
> server.  Some machines run headless and so don't require an X server
> (what startx runs) to be installed to run X apps.

Yeah, it'd be a _royal_ pain if KDE and GNOME depended on an X server.
It'd defeat the whole client-server relationship!

Sorry it's confusing for people who wouldn't use it like that....

Also, please don't use XFree86! It's defunct, and has an obnoxious licence.

Chris



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