On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Tomas M <[email protected]> wrote: > You probably do not understand me correctly. > I am not an end user. > I am a creator of Live distribution Slax (now based on Debian). > > I understand that installing 'xorg' package will add libgl1-mesa-dri. > But I do not want this to be included in base Slax. I just want > xorg-server inthere.
xserver-xorg-core already Recommends libgl1-mesa-dri. I do hope you install Recommends. > Anyway, this is not about Slax. This is about Debian. > > I understand Debian this way: > 1) user can install any package by apt install. > 2) user can choose himself what he wants to install > 3) so I choose to install xorg-server only. This works perfectly well. > I do not need libgl1-mesa-dri to use xorg-server package. > 4) then later I choose to install abiword > 5) Debian's dependency tracking system should know that abiword > requires libgl1-mesa-dri to run (it fails to start without it). > > I believe that dependency tracking in Debian should understand that if > user wants to install abiword, then the user must have installed > libgl1-mesa-dri, because otherwise abiword does not start. Ok, could you investigate why Abiword appears to require libgl1-mesa-dri? It's unusual for a Debian app to need to manually depend on that. Jeremy
