To follow up on my previous posting, when I tried to magic with xfce alone, this is the error msg that I received.
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Please answer the following questions (if any) in lowercase:
Do you want to emerge sync? This is only needed if you have not done
so in a long time - about a week or two, syncing allows you to install
the latest stable software. (yes/no): no
Do you want KDE? (yes/no): no
Do you want XFCE4? (yes/no): yes
sync: no
kde: no
xfce4: yes
If this is not correct, press Ctrl-C within the next 5 seconds
After answering all questions this installer should be automated
so you can leave your xbox and come back to it once its finished!
5 4 3 2 1 0
Continuing...
Updating XFCE...
--07:57:41--
http://gentoox.shallax.com/b0x/xfce.b0x
=> `xfce.b0x'
Resolving gentoox.shallax.com... 213.107.40.247
Connecting to gentoox.shallax.com[213.107.40.247]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4,231 [text/plain]
100%[====================================>] 4,231 4.91K/s
07:57:42 (4.90 KB/s) - `xfce.b0x' saved [4231/4231]
This will install the XFCE windowmanager
emerge xfce4...
Calculating dependencies ...done!
!!! Error: the xfce-base/xfce4-base package conflicts with another package.
!!! both can't be installed on the same system together.
!!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.
Emerge failed.
xfce patch failed.
Check your network settings and try again.
Magic encountered the above error, please try again later.
Emerge/ Unmerge errors are problems with portage, please try resyncing or
waiting before running magic again. Emerge errors are also common with
UNSET CLOCKS! To set your clock, as root run: date MMDDhhmmYYYY
Download errors are most likely to be Gentoox central server/ DNS errors
and should be fixed almost immediately. If you get a download error,
simply try running magic again straight away.
An 'Invalid selection' error means that your input to a question was not
correct - please note that CaSe matters. If you receive an invalid
selection error, please re-run magic and answer all questions correctly
questions have valid answer syntax printed in brackets.
'Decompression Failed.' means that data got corrupted whilst downloading
a compressed archive. Try running magic again to see if the problem
corrects itself.
Press enter to quit...