[arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

[Linas]

Peter Cannon wrote:
>> pacman -Si xfce|less
>>
>> and looked for a package that might get me to a minimal desktop I could work with.
>> I thought maybe xfdesktop...
>>
>> pacman -S xfdesktop
>>      
> Why have you done this? If you look at the 'man' page you will see
> http://linux.die.net/man/1/xfdesktop
>
> xfdesktop manages the desktop itself in the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment.
>
> You should have done pacman -S xfce4
>
> By the sound of it you've only installed part of the desktop environment.
>    


Looks like xfdesktop packages doesn't specify some of its dependancies 
(which is probably
provided in the xfce4 group).

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=xfce4 should also include that 
there's a group with that name.
I don't think it was a bad expectation from his part, looking at pacman 
-Ss xfce output. And even then,
it could have worked, would xfdesktop have taken as dependancies the 
whole desktop.

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