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Agent69

Member

Registered: 2006-05-26

Posts: 193

Usefulness Of The Xorg Group

I installed Arch yesterday, for the first time in a while, and I was disappointed to see that the Xorg group is no longer useful (I ended up with what would appear to be a collection of drivers).

I don't know why this change was made but I have to wonder about the wisdom of it. For example, the base group provides a useful collection of packages for Arch itself, the Base-devel group provides a useful collection of packages for compiling or developing software, and the same can be said of the Xfce4 and Gnome groups, but the Xorg group is seems useless for getting a good install of Xorg. It seems to me that the Xorg group should have stayed as it was: a group of packages that most people would generally expect to get in a base install of Xorg; minus the drivers.

Don't get me wrong, this doesn't make me angry or anything; I just don't understand how this is an improvement over what we had before.

Last edited by Agent69 (2011-05-09 12:35:13)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Usefulness Of The Xorg Group

Maybe https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23296 although I'm not sure if it's the explanation you wanted. It may have more sense from the dev's / maintainer's perspective.
It goes back to http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 18235.html

There has also been some discussion about groups, metapackages, tags, categories etc. but I don't remember if it was in the bugtracker, the ML or am I hallucinating altogether.

Last edited by karol (2011-05-09 16:01:19)

thestinger

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: Usefulness Of The Xorg Group

If you want a base install of Xorg, you just need xorg-server (along with xorg-xinit if you aren't using a display manager).