Re: Will X11 ever be installed by default?
Re: Will X11 ever be installed by default?
- Subject: Re: Will X11 ever be installed by default?
- From: Patrick Coskren <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:31:44 -0400
On Jul 27, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Dave Williss wrote:
We have a product which runs on OS X and _requires_ that the
user have installed X11. I know you can install it when you install
the OS, but you have to go out of your way to "Customize" the install.
Last week, we installed Tiger to test our product under it and forgot
to do the customize step and install X11. Since this is a likely
situation
for our end users, we tried installing X11 separately and it refused to
install because it said it was already installed. It was partly, the
/usr/X11R6 directory was still there because we didn't wipe the machine
first, but the icon to start it was missing from
/Applications/Utilities.
Sounds to me like a bug in the Tiger installer. Or at least in the X11
installer part. Hardly surprising in a pre-release, but it needs a
fix. My advice would be to file a bug report.
Yes, you can say we should have wiped the machine first and then
it might have installed, but that would be missing the point: would
your average user think of doing that? Most likely not!
Well, yes, but your average user wouldn't be using an X11 program. X11
users are used to configuration pain. :-)
Best regards,
-Patrick
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