[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing mate and enabling lightdm

[Michael Kruger]

On 08/21/16 04:18 AM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
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> Am 21.08.16 um 02:51 schrieb Michael Kruger:
>> For the sake of any folks new to OpenIndiana (such as myself), I 
>> wanted to loosely document the process of installing the mate desktop 
>> and enabling lightdm.
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>> 1) Install the MATE desktop meta package (sudo pkg install mate_install)
> I needed to remove the packages "userland-incorporation" and "entire" 
> before that.

Hi Andreas,

I'm unfamiliar with the packages you mentioned, so I did a 'pkg info' on 
them.

The 'entire' package is an incorporation to lock all system packages to 
same build.
And 'userland-incorporation' is a meta package which constrains packages 
from the userland consolidation.

Can you tell me why removing these was necessary?

Thanks,

Michael