On 2004-01-19, Shan Destromp <shan@nospam.hybryd.org> wrote:
> Captains log; stardate Sunday 18 January 2004 06:14 pm, Lieutenant Jon Portnoy reported that.......
>
>>> According to the ebuild file, (and reportedly the devs) it needs the entire x11 library set in
>>> order
>>> to work, though why? I dunno, I guess maybe they use the same technology used in X that allows
>>> us to network x sessions, to network audio.......
>>>
>>
>> From the comments in the ebuilds:
>>
>> # This is ridculuous, we only need xmkmf, but no other package
>> # provides it. 20020607 (Seemant): Actually, the homepage says it needs
>> # the entire X11 build environment, so this is ok.
>>
>
> ....isn't that basically what I said? *is confused*
>

I was referring to the fact that what it wants is the build environment,
not X (or the X protocol) itself.

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