packaging of gui app: should it require X + wm ?

Sun Oct 8 15:08:22 UTC 2006

Hi.

David Timms schrieb:

> Just trying some minimal installs of the dev tree, succesfully booting
> to text mode (ie no X nor wm). I did a yum install gkrellm. This
> installed lm-sensors, but didn't force or warn that an X implmentation
> or window manager should be installed.

Did it pull in (or did you have installed before) xorg-x11-libs?
This is (usually) enough to get remote X going, you do not necessarily
need a WM or X on the machine itself.