Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- Subject: Re: X11 and Xquartz removal
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:16:59 -0800
On Nov 16, 2011, at 11:11, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:
>> That's terrible advice. By all means remove XQuartz, but removing the system X11 as well? Mad.
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> Mad?
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> As far as I'm concerned I never gave such an advice. Only if users have messed up their system because they tried to install the XQuartz version,
How has this messed up their system? I've seen no such reports. Bug reports are most certainly welcome...
> and after discovering that this won't solve their problem in launching GIMP (the GIMP on OS X version), they tried to remove XQuartz by doing things they don't understand.
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> The frustrating side of this situation is, that although GIMP will run without any problem on any Mac shipped with Apple's own software, without the need to even install additional software (as you might know, X11 is installed by default on SL and Lion), people think that GIMP is buggy, because they previously deleted Apple's X11 and got some advice to install XQuartz to solve their problem.
> IMO it's mad to give advice to install XQuartz without clarifying that applications linked against Apple's X11 libraries still need Apple's X11 libraries and XQuartz won't provide those libraries people need.
Agreed, it's insane to tell users to delete /usr/X11 if they're trying to get an application to work that requires it...
Installing XQuartz won't replace /usr/X11, although I could update the installer to provide symlinks from /usr/X11 -> /opt/X11 in the event they have shot themselves in the foot.
I'll have to consider that...
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