Re: pkg/45194

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45194; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/45194
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:04:38 +0000

 On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 08:35:02PM +0000, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
  >  Wow. If you set X11_TYPE to "native" on non-NetBSD system be ready for a
  >  lot of very strange problems ;-) Personally, I'd recommend you to always
  >  set X11_TYPE=modular on non-NetBSD systems and Linux in particular.
 
 It's supposed to be supported. However, you have to make sure you have
 all of the native X installed, which with Debian resembles pulling
 teeth.
 
 If Debian/Ubuntu has a meta-package to install all of X, it would be
 good to get that info into the pkgsrc guide.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost