[ale] Why

[Jeff Hubbs]

That's 
a real good question.  I just recently tried to set up an X-less 
disk-limited machine for bind/dhcpd under RH6.2 and it was pulling the same kind 
of stunts.  
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Out of 
curiosity, I renamed a directory that held a lot of X stuff (somewhere under 
/usr, I think) to see if it affected anything and yes, things broke, so I 
renamed it back.
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I 
really wish distros were more straightforward w.r.t. setup options than just 
giving you "server," "workstation," and "custom."  Distros are 
complex enough that if you select "custom," you don't get a good feel 
for even what the provided starting point gets you (at least I don't, but I 
don't think I'm unusually clueless).
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- 
Jeff  
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: Chris Fowler 
  [mailto:ChrisF at computone.com]Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:43 
  PMTo: 'ale at ale.org'Subject: [ale] 
  Why
  Why when I load RH 7.1 and say no X widows, does netscape get 
  loaded. Why when I say no X windows, Does it try to 
  configure my video card for X?