diff --git a/x/critical b/x/critical
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/x/critical
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+app-editors/nano
+net-misc/openssh
+net-misc/rsync
+net-misc/wget
+sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
+sys-kernel/linux-headers
+sys-devel/gcc
+sys-devel/automake
+sys-devel/bison
+sys-devel/make
+sys-devel/flex
+sys-devel/automake-wrapper
+sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper
+sys-devel/autoconf
+sys-devel/m4
+sys-devel/gcc-config
+sys-devel/libtool
+sys-devel/binutils
+sys-devel/binutils-config
+sys-devel/patch
+sys-devel/gnuconfig
+app-admin/python-updater
+app-admin/perl-cleaner
+sys-apps/man-pages
+sys-apps/man
+sys-apps/file
+sys-apps/less
+sys-apps/texinfo
+sys-apps/busybox
+sys-apps/debianutils
+sys-apps/man-pages-posix
+sys-apps/sandbox
+sys-apps/which
+dev-lang/perl
+sys-devel/libperl
+sys-apps/portage
diff --git a/x/package.keywords b/x/package.keywords
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/x/package.use b/x/package.use
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index 0000000..342b408
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+++ b/x/package.use
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+x11-base/xorg-server xorg
+dev-lang/python xml
diff --git a/x/postinstall b/x/postinstall
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index 0000000..32efd89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x/postinstall
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+#!/bin/sh -ev
+
+CHROOT="$1"
+APPLIANCE="`dirname $0`"
+
+cp "${APPLIANCE}"/xdm/* "${CHROOT}"/etc/X11/xdm
+chroot "${CHROOT}" rc-update add xdm default
diff --git a/x/preinstall b/x/preinstall
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index 0000000..aa6c897
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x/preinstall
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+CHROOT="$1"
diff --git a/x/world b/x/world
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index 0000000..2f9dc39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x/world
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+net-misc/dhcpcd
+x11-apps/xcalc
+x11-apps/xdm
+x11-apps/xedit
+x11-apps/xeyes
+x11-apps/xload
+x11-apps/xlogo
+x11-base/xorg-x11
diff --git a/x/xdm/Xaccess b/x/xdm/Xaccess
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+++ b/x/xdm/Xaccess
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+# $XdotOrg: Xaccess,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
+# $Xorg: Xaccess,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
+# $XFree86: xc/programs/xdm/config/Xaccess,v 1.4 2003/07/09 15:27:40 tsi Exp $
+#
+# Access control file for XDMCP connections
+#
+# To control Direct and Broadcast access:
+#
+#	pattern
+#
+# To control Indirect queries:
+#
+# 	pattern		list of hostnames and/or macros ...
+#
+# To use the chooser:
+#
+#	pattern		CHOOSER BROADCAST
+#
+# or
+#
+#	pattern		CHOOSER list of hostnames and/or macros ...
+#
+# To define macros:
+#
+#       %name		list of hosts ...
+#
+# To control which addresses xdm listens for requests on:
+#
+#	LISTEN		address [list of multicast groups ... ]
+#
+# The first form tells xdm which displays to respond to itself.
+# The second form tells xdm to forward indirect queries from hosts matching
+# the specified pattern to the indicated list of hosts.
+# The third form tells xdm to handle indirect queries using the chooser;
+# the chooser is directed to send its own queries out via the broadcast
+# address and display the results on the terminal.
+# The fourth form is similar to the third, except instead of using the
+# broadcast address, it sends DirectQuerys to each of the hosts in the list
+# The fifth form tells xdm which addresses to listen for incoming connections
+# on.  If present, xdm will only listen for connections on the specified 
+# interfaces and/or multicast groups.
+#
+# In all cases, xdm uses the first entry which matches the terminal;
+# for IndirectQuery messages only entries with right hand sides can
+# match, for Direct and Broadcast Query messages, only entries without
+# right hand sides can match.
+#
+
+*					#any host can get a login window
+
+#
+# To hardwire a specific terminal to a specific host, you can
+# leave the terminal sending indirect queries to this host, and
+# use an entry of the form:
+#
+
+#terminal-a	host-a
+
+
+#
+# The nicest way to run the chooser is to just ask it to broadcast
+# requests to the network - that way new hosts show up automatically.
+# Sometimes, however, the chooser can't figure out how to broadcast,
+# so this may not work in all environments.
+#
+
+#*		CHOOSER BROADCAST	#any indirect host can get a chooser
+
+#
+# If you'd prefer to configure the set of hosts each terminal sees,
+# then just uncomment these lines (and comment the CHOOSER line above)
+# and edit the %hostlist line as appropriate
+#
+
+#%hostlist	host-a host-b
+
+#*		CHOOSER %hostlist	#
+
+#
+# If you have a machine with multiple network interfaces or IP addresses
+# you can control which interfaces accept XDMCP packets by listing a LISTEN
+# line for each interface you want to listen on.  You can additionally list
+# one or more multicast groups after each address to listen on those groups
+# on that address.
+#
+# If no LISTEN is specified, the default is the same as "LISTEN *" - listen on
+# all unicast interfaces, but not for multicast packets.  If any LISTEN lines
+# are specified, then only the listed interfaces will be listened on.
+#
+# IANA has assigned FF0X:0:0:0:0:0:0:12B as the permanently assigned 
+# multicast addresses for XDMCP, where X in the prefix may be replaced
+# by any valid scope identifier, such as 1 for Node-Local, 2 for Link-Local,
+# 5 for Site-Local, and so on.  The default is equivalent to the example shown
+# here using the Link-Local version to most closely match the old IPv4 subnet
+# broadcast behavior.
+#
+# LISTEN		* ff02:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b
+
+# This example shows listening for multicast on all scopes up to site-local
+#
+# LISTEN	* ff01:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff02:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff03:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff04:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b ff05:0:0:0:0:0:0:12b
diff --git a/x/xdm/Xservers b/x/xdm/Xservers
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index 0000000..a363f9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x/xdm/Xservers
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+# $Xorg: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
+#
+# Xservers file, workstation prototype
+#
+# This file should contain an entry to start the server on the
+# local display; if you have more than one display (not screen),
+# you can add entries to the list (one per line).  If you also
+# have some X terminals connected which do not support XDMCP,
+# you can add them here as well.  Each X terminal line should
+# look like:
+#	XTerminalName:0 foreign
+#
+#:0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7
diff --git a/x/xdm/xdm-config b/x/xdm/xdm-config
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index 0000000..8baa559
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x/xdm/xdm-config
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+! $Xorg: xdm-conf.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
+! $XdotOrg: $    
+!
+!
+!
+!
+! $XFree86: xc/programs/xdm/config/xdm-conf.cpp,v 1.10 2002/11/30 19:11:32 herrb Exp $
+!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+DisplayManager.errorLogFile:	/var/log/xdm.log
+DisplayManager.pidFile:		/var/run/xdm.pid
+DisplayManager.keyFile:		/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
+DisplayManager.servers:		/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
+DisplayManager.accessFile:	/etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess
+DisplayManager*resources:	/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
+DisplayManager.willing:		/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xwilling
+! All displays should use authorization, but we cannot be sure
+! X terminals may not be configured that way, so they will require
+! individual resource settings.
+DisplayManager*authorize:	true
+!
+DisplayManager*chooser:		/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/chooser
+DisplayManager*startup:		/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xstartup
+DisplayManager*session:		/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsession
+DisplayManager*reset:		/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xreset
+DisplayManager*authComplain:	true
+! The following three resources set up display :0 as the console.
+DisplayManager._0.setup:	/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
+DisplayManager._0.startup:	/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
+DisplayManager._0.reset:	/usr/lib64/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
+
+DisplayManager*loginmoveInterval:	10
+
+! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests
+! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm
+! DisplayManager.requestPort:	0