A few X questions (small X load for small drive needed)

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Fri Jun 25 17:02:28 PDT 2004


On Jun 25, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Joe Schmoe wrote:
> What are some options I can add to the standard `make
> install` command for that port to significantly reduce
> the size of X ?
>
> Any general comments on making a smaller/faster/more
> efficient X for an old laptop are greatly appreciated.

X11 doesn't really fit the criteria of small and efficient, I'm afraid. 
  This being said, you can try to install just x11/XFree86-4-libraries 
and the specific X11 client apps you want to run...

-- 
-Chuck



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